hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

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Updated: 2024-08-04T23:10:30.818Z

Reserved: 2019-05-17T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-12174

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-07-08T14:15:10.287

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:22:22.210

Link: CVE-2019-12174

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