CVE-2012-4284 Information

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

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8