CVE-2019-12174

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-07-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-306

Description

hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.

Affected products

Hide.Me: before 2.4.4 — fixed in 2.4.4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Hide.Me 2.4.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TwbjmE45gnWeYpFyH8kDU63P7u4IdPd2
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TwbjmE45gnWeYpFyH8kDU63P7u4IdPd2

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