cve/2012/CVE-2012-4284.md

### [CVE-2012-4284](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4284)
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### 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

### POC

#### Reference
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.html

#### Github
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