CVE-2019-5012
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Oct 24, 2019
- Updated
- Aug 4, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 4, 2019
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.0 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | talos |
Weaknesses
- CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Wacomn/a |
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References
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