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CVE-2019-12573

HIGH · CVSS 7.1 EPSS 0.58% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-07-11 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2019-12573
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.1
EPSS
0.58%
Linux

Original NVD Description

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. The openvpn_launcher binary is setuid root. This binary supports the --log option, which accepts a path as an argument. This parameter is not sanitized, which allows a local unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by any user on the system, including root. This creates a denial of service condition and possible data loss if leveraged by a malicious local user.