CVE-2012-4284: Sparklabs Viscosity

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 69.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Sparklabs Viscosity: version 1.4.1 only

Published 2020-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.