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$ cve CVE-2012-4284 JSON

CVE-2012-4284 EXPLOIT

9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 69.5% (pctl 99)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X due to a path name validation issue in the setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code

Scoring

CVSS9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS69.52% — more likely to be exploited than 99% of all CVEs
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2020-01-10
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
sparklabsviscosity

Public exploits

References

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