CVSS 3.0
7.1 highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2019-12573
High (7.1) in londontrustmedia private internet access vpn client. EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 47% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-59
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- londontrustmedia:private_internet_access_vpn_client