High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 24, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-5012
CVE-2019-5012
Description
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.
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Affected products
3- Wacom/driverdescription
- Range: = 6.3.32-3
Patches
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References
1- talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0760nvdThird Party Advisory
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