CVE-2025-49809

high

Description

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

https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6

https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/35085

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-04

Updated: 2025-07-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00012