CVE-2019-12174: Hide Hide.me

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.

Affected products

• Hide Hide.me: before 2.4.4 (fixed in 2.4.4)

Published 2019-07-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.