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CVE-2012-4284

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 69.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

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

Affected products

• Viscosity: 1.4.1

References

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

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