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

Metrics

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

Timeline

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

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