CVE-2019-12574

HIGH

Londontrustmedia Private Internet Acc... - Untrusted Search Path

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 62.2%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-426
Status published
Products (1)
londontrustmedia/private_internet_access_vpn_client 1.0
Published Jul 11, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026