7.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-16895

Published: 01/12/2017 Updated: 04/06/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 725
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The (1) arq_updater, (2) arqcommitter, (3) standardrestorer, (4) arqglacierrestorer, and (5) arqs3glacierrestorer helper apps in Arq 5.x prior to 5.10 for Mac allow local users to gain root privileges via a crafted data packet.

Vulnerability Trend

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Exploits

=begin As well as the other bugs affecting Arq <= 596 there is also another issue with the suid-root restorer binaries in Arq for Mac There are three of them and they are used to execute restores of backed up files from the various cloud providers After reversing the inter-app protocol I discovered that the path to the restorer binary was s ...