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FKIE_CVE-2025-49809

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-07-04 13:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:31
Severity
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/35085
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T09:31:56.657",
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