CVE-2025-49809

Name
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/35085
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/blob/master/SECURITY
cve@mitre.org https://github.com/traviscross/mtr/commit/5226f105f087c29d3cfad9f28000e7536af91ac6

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
mtr >= 0 <= 0.95

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
mtr edge-community 0.96-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed
mtr 3.23-community 0.96-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed
mtr 3.22-community 0.96-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed