CVE-2012-4284

critical

Description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X due to a path name validation issue in the setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code

References

https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2012-4228

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-10

Updated: 2020-05-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H