CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15357
7.4 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-362, CWE-59
Description
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 configurations
• arqbackup arq (< 5.9.7)
Related
References
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715357-local-root-privesc-in-arq-backup--596.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.arqbackup.com/download/arq5_release_notes.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43218/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://m4.rkw.io/blog/cve201715357-local-root-privesc-in-arq-backup--596.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.arqbackup.com/download/arq5_release_notes.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43218/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry