CVE-2012-4284

Summary

CVECVE-2012-4284
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-10 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-05-11 19:20:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Sparklabs Viscosity 1.4.1 All All All
Application Sparklabs Viscosity 1.4.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Viscosity 'ViscosityHelper' Symlink Attack Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability MISC www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Viscosity setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation MISC www.exploit-db.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Viscosity - SparkLabs CONFIRM www.sparklabs.com Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Viscosity setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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