CVE-2017-15357

PoC ×2—

CVSS 3.0

7.4 high

EPSS

1%p65

Published

Dec 1, 2017 (Dec 1, 2017)

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.

Vendors: arqbackup
Products: arq
Weakness: CWE-59, CWE-362
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.2%)

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