CVE-2019-12174

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-306

Affected software

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

References

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TwbjmE45gnWeYpFyH8kDU63P7u4IdPd2Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TwbjmE45gnWeYpFyH8kDU63P7u4IdPd2Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 8, 2019
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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