High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 11, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-12575
CVE-2019-12575
Description
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 root_runner.64 binary is setuid root. This binary executes /opt/pia/ruby/64/ruby, which in turn attempts to load several libraries under /tmp/ruby-deploy.old/lib. A local unprivileged user can create a malicious library under this path to execute arbitrary code as the root user.
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Affected products
3- London Trust Media/Private Internet Access VPN Clientdescription
- Range: 82
- cpe:2.3:a:londontrustmedia:private_internet_access_vpn_client:82:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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References
1- github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12575.txtnvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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