CVE-2019-12574

CVSS V2 High 9.3 CVSS V3 High 7.8
Description
A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v1.0 for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The PIA client is vulnerable to a DLL injection vulnerability during the software update process. The updater loads several libraries from a folder that authenticated users have write access to. A low privileged user can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2019-12574
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2019-07-11T20:15:12
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-07-16T12:36:07
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-426 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
AND
cpe:2.3:a:londontrustmedia:private_internet_access_vpn_client:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 0 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Integrity Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 9.3
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 10
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • REQUIRED
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • HIGH
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 5.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12574.txt Exploit Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12574
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-12574
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:40:56 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 23:12:25 2019-07-11T20:15Z 2019-07-11T20:15:12 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 23:12:25 2019-07-16T12:36:07 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 23:12:25 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated