London Trust Media Private Internet Access v82 on MacOS openvpn_launcher Environment Variable privilege escalation

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in London Trust Media Private Internet Access v82 on MacOS. Affected is an unknown code block of the component openvpn_launcher. The manipulation as part of a Environment Variable leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 07/11/2019. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-12576 since 06/02/2019. The attack needs to be approached locally. A single authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 07/12/2019).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries 137775, 137774, 137773 and 137771 are pretty similar.

Vendor

• London Trust Media

Name

• Private Internet Access

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.8

VulDB Base Score: 7.8
VulDB Temp Score: 7.8
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Class: Privilege escalation (CWE-269)
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfoedit

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Remediation: 🔍Recommended: no mitigation known

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06/02/2019 CVE assigned
07/11/2019 +39 days Advisory disclosed
07/12/2019 +1 days VulDB entry created
07/12/2019 +0 days VulDB last update
CVE: CVE-2019-12576 (🔒)
See also: 🔒Created: 07/12/2019 09:33 AM
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