VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3485

high
Published 2012-08-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.2

Description

Tunnelblick 3.3beta20 and earlier relies on argv[0] to determine the name of an appropriate (1) kernel module pathname or (2) executable file pathname, which allows local users to gain privileges via an execl system call.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-20443 local osx verified
zx2c4 · 2012-08-11

Tunnelblick - Local Privilege Escalation (2)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-24578 local osx verified
Metasploit · 2013-03-05

Tunnelblick - Setuid Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_osx/local/setuid_tunnelblick rank 600
Setuid Tunnelblick Privilege Escalation
Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gcp googletunnelblick{"endIncluding":"3.3beta20"}

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.