Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
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.
- HIGH
- LOCAL
- HIGH
- CHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- HIGH
- HIGH
CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
The software imports, requires, or includes executable functionality (such as a library) from a source that is outside of the intended control sphere.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published