CVE-2012-4284

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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

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CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jan 10, 2020
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2012-4284: Critical severity, CVSS 9.8 | Vulnix