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CVE-2019-12574

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v1.0 for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The PIA client is vulnerable to a DLL injection vulnerability during the software update process. The updater loads several libraries from a folder that authenticated users have write access to. A low privileged user can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM.

Published

2019-07-11T20:15:12.927

Last Modified

2024-11-21T04:23:07.187

Status

Modified

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-426

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	londontrustmedia	private_internet_access_vpn_client	1.0	Yes
Operating System	microsoft	windows	-	No

References

https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12574.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12574.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)