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.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5012
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0760