CVE-2012-4284

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Jan 10, 2020
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Aug 14, 2012

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

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

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

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