CVE-2025-49809 (GCVE-0-2025-49809)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-04 00:00
Modified
2025-07-08 14:30
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Summary
mtr through 0.95, in certain privileged contexts, mishandles execution of a program specified by the MTR_PACKET environment variable. NOTE: mtr on macOS may often have Sudo rules, as an indirect consequence of Homebrew not installing setuid binaries.
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