CVE-2012-4284

9.8 criticalEPSS 70%

Critical (9.8) in sparklabs viscosity. EPSS 70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X due to a path name validation issue in the setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2020-01-10
Modified: 2026-06-16
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

sparklabs:viscosity

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.html
https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579

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