HIGH 7.8 Microsoft
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.
Microsoft Security Update 2025-Jul: 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 Products
- azl3 mtr 0.95-3 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 mtr 0.95-2 on Azure Linux 3.0
References
- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-49809
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-49809
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2025-07-08 via Microsoft. Affected: azl3 mtr 0.95-3 on Azure Linux 3.0, azl3 mtr 0.95-2 on Azure Linux 3.0.
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