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CVE-2019-12573

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

Description

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. The openvpn_launcher binary is setuid root. This binary supports the --log option, which accepts a path as an argument. This parameter is not sanitized, which allows a local unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by any user on the system, including root. This creates a denial of service condition and possible data loss if leveraged by a malicious local user.

Affected products

• Londontrustmedia Private Internet Access Vpn Client: 82

References

• https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12573.txt
• https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12573.txt

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