Vulnerability CVE-2012-4284
Published: 2020-01-10

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

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Viscosity setuid-set ViscosityHelper Privilege Escalation
Juan vazquez
05.03.2013

Type:

NVD-CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
10/10
10/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Sparklabs -> Viscosity 

 References:
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002
https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.html
https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/
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