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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-07-11T19:31:02

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:24:38.899Z

Reserved: 2019-06-02T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-12573

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-07-11T20:15:12.867

Modified: 2021-09-08T17:22:01.777

Link: CVE-2019-12573

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