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CVE-2025-49809 (GCVE-0-2025-49809)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-07-08 14:30
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-08 14:11 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
mtr mtr Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.95 (custom)
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