Privilege Escalation via Symlink Attack in Arq Auto-Updater

CVE-2017-15357 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:M/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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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