CVE-2019-12579 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS. An authenticated, local attacker can inject arbitrary commands into unsanitized parameters passed to operating system calls by the setuid root openvpn_launcher.64 binary. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
82CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:londontrustmedia:private_internet_access_vpn_client:82:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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