CVE-2019-12937

7.8 highEPSS 0.5%

High (7.8) in toaruos project toaruos. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

apps/gsudo.c in gsudo in ToaruOS through 1.10.9 has a buffer overflow allowing local privilege escalation to the root user via the DISPLAY environment variable.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.8 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 43% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-787
Published: 2019-06-23
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

toaruos_project:toaruos

References

https://github.com/mehsauce/kowasuos/blob/master/exploits/kowasu-gsudo.c
https://github.com/mehsauce/kowasuos/blob/master/exploits/kowasu-gsudo.c

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