CVE-2025-49809

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jul 4, 2025
Updated: Jul 8, 2025
Reserved: Jun 11, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Affected Products

Product	Versions
mtrmtr	0.95 and earlierAffected

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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