CVE-2019-5012: Wacom Driver

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.

Affected products

• Wacom Driver: version 6.3.32-3 only

Published 2019-10-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.