CVE-2017-15357

HighCVSS 7.4/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.4/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59 CWE-362

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Dec 1, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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