CVE-2019-12575

HIGH

Londontrustmedia Private Internet Acc... - Uncontrolled Search Path

Title source: rule

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)

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12575.txt

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Scores

CVSS v3 7.8

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 15.5%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Affected Products (1)

londontrustmedia/private_internet_access_vpn_client

Timeline

Published Jul 11, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026