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TI-2012-03664 Aliases CVE-2012-4284GHSA-f8g5-wppw-9vhr

A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X due to a path…

Priority HIGH 79Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

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

Why it matters now

EPSS 0.69523 99th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
——all versions—No fix listedCNA
  • — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:sparklabs:viscosity:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*1.4.1VulnerableSparkLabs
  • cpe:2.3:a:sparklabs:viscosity:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* Versions 1.4.1 Vulnerable ·SparkLabs

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2012-4284
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f8g5-wppw-9vhr

References

Exploit 2

Advisory 1

  • TI-2017-14189 Viscosity DLL untrusted search path CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2020-04244 Viscosity 1.8.2 on Windows and macOS allows an unprivileged user to set a subset of… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8

Sources

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