CVE-2019-12575

HIGH

Londontrustmedia Private Internet Acc... - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The root_runner.64 binary is setuid root. This binary executes /opt/pia/ruby/64/ruby, which in turn attempts to load several libraries under /tmp/ruby-deploy.old/lib. A local unprivileged user can create a malicious library under this path to execute arbitrary code as the root user.

References (1)

Core 1

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0005
EPSS Percentile 15.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-427
Status published
Products (1)
londontrustmedia/private_internet_access_vpn_client 82
Published Jul 11, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026