High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 8, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-12174
CVE-2019-12174
Description
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.
Affected products
2- hide.me/hide.medescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- drive.google.com/opennvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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