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CVE-2019-5012

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2019-10-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-88

Description

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.

Affected products

• Wacom Drivers for Windows: 6.3.32-3

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0760
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0760

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