CVE-2025-49809

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.

Reserved 2025-06-11 | Published 2025-07-04 | Updated 2025-07-08 | Assigner mitre

Problem types

CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

Product status

Default status
unknown

Any version
affected

References

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

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

github.com/...ommit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6

cve.org (CVE-2025-49809)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-49809)

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