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CVE-2019-12575

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-07-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-427

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.

Affected products

• Londontrustmedia Private Internet Access Vpn Client: 82

References

• https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12575.txt
• https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12575.txt

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