CVE-2017-15357: The setpermissions function in the auto-updater in Arq before 5.9.7 for Mac allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the updater…

PriorityP341high7.4CVSS 3.0

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EXPLOIT

EPSS

1.16%

63.0th percentile

The setpermissions function in the auto-updater in Arq before 5.9.7 for Mac allows local users to gain root privileges via a symlink attack on the updater binary itself.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
arqbackup	arq	< 5.9.7	5.9.7

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.4HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.9MEDIUMAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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