CVE-2019-12579

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 run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The PIA Linux/macOS binary openvpnlauncher.64 binary is setuid root. This binary accepts several...

CVE-2019-12579

CVE-2019-12579 affects the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux/macOS. The vulnerability is in the setuid root binary openvpn_launcher.64, which accepts system-configuration parameters that are passed to OS commands via a here document without proper sanitizat...

CVE-2019-12575

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 rootrunner.64 binary is setuid root. This binary executes /opt/pia/ruby/64/ruby, which in turn attempts t...

CVE-2019-12575

CVE-2019-12575 affects the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux. The root_runner.64 binary is setuid root and executes /opt/pia/ruby/64/ruby, which loads libraries under /tmp/ruby-deploy.old/lib. A local unprivileged user can place a malicious library in that ...

PT-2019-12864

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client version 1.0 Description A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated...

CVE-2019-12578: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command

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 openvpnlauncher.64 binary is setuid root. This binary executes /opt/pia/openvpn-64/openvpn, passing the...

CVE-2019-12571: Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v0.9.8 beta build 02099 for macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. When the client initiates a connection, the XML /tmp/pia-watcher.plist file is created. If the file exists,...

CVE-2019-12577: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v82 for macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The macOS binary openvpnlauncher.64 is setuid root. This binary creates /tmp/piaupscript.sh when executed...

CVE-2019-12575: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

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 rootrunner.64 binary is setuid root. This binary executes /opt/pia/ruby/64/ruby, which in turn attempts t...

CVE-2019-12576: Untrusted Search Path

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v82 for macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The openvpnlauncher binary is setuid root. This program is called during the connection process and executes...

CVE-2019-12579: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

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 run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The PIA Linux/macOS binary openvpnlauncher.64 binary is setuid root. This binary accepts several...

CVE-2019-12574: Untrusted Search Path

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...

CVE-2019-12572

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client 1.0.2 build 02363 for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. On startup, the PIA Windows service pia-service.exe loads the OpenSSL library from...

CVE-2019-12572: Uncontrolled Search Path Element

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client 1.0.2 build 02363 for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. On startup, the PIA Windows service pia-service.exe loads the OpenSSL library from...

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This week, the focus was on Infosecurity Europe, which took place in London and showcased a myriad of sessions, threat research and trends in the cybersecurity space. During the Threatpost news wrap for the week ended June 7, the team breaks down the top news from the show, as well as other...

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