Arq 5.9.6 - Local Privilege Escalation

Arq Backup from Haystack Software is a great application for backing up macs and windows machines. Unfortunately versions of Arq for mac before 5.9.7 are vulnerable to a local root privilege escalation exploit. The updater binary has a "setpermissions" function which sets the suid bit and root...

CVE-2017-15357

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...