CVE-2025-49809

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-829: CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: total

Additional References

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

References

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

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