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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-12-01T17:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:57:25.481Z

Reserved: 2017-10-15T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-15357

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2017-12-01T17:29:00.433

Modified: 2020-05-04T13:19:47.447

Link: CVE-2017-15357

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