github - ghsa-hvvx-vw37-6fjm

ghsa-hvvx-vw37-6fjm

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-07-04 15:31

Modified

2025-07-04 15:31

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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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  "modified": "2025-07-04T15:31:08Z",
  "published": "2025-07-04T15:31:08Z",
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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.

References

URL

Tags

	https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/35085
	https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY
	https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mtr	mtr	Version: 0 <

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