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CVE-2019-12937

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-06-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

apps/gsudo.c in gsudo in ToaruOS through 1.10.9 has a buffer overflow allowing local privilege escalation to the root user via the DISPLAY environment variable.

Affected products

• Toaruos Project Toaruos: through 1.10.9

References

• https://github.com/mehsauce/kowasuos/blob/master/exploits/kowasu-gsudo.c
• https://github.com/mehsauce/kowasuos/blob/master/exploits/kowasu-gsudo.c

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