CVE Alert: CVE-2025-49809
Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-49809
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 Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
7/4/2025, 1:15:25 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/35085
- https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY
- https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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