What is CVE-2019-12174?

CVE-2019-12174 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hide Hide.me, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2019-07-08.

How severe is CVE-2019-12174?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Hide Hide.me

CVE-2019-12174

hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.004 (35.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Hide Hide.me
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-12174?: CVE-2019-12174 is a high-severity vulnerability in Hide Hide.me, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2019-07-08.
How severe is CVE-2019-12174?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.