CVE-2025-49809

Published: Jul 4, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

7.8

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.1 / Impact: 6.0

Source: MITRE (Secondary)

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.

Related CWEs

CWE-829

Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

The product imports, requires, or includes executable functionality (such as a library) from a source that is outside of the intended control sphere.

References (4)

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: cve@mitre.org

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

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

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