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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-07-04T00:00:00.000Z

Last Modified :

2025-07-08T14:30:08.475Z

Source :

mitre
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-49809 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Mtr
  • Mtr
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-49809.

URL Resource
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/35085 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49809 cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-49809 cve-icon
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