CVE-2017-16945 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Arq 5.10 and earlier for macOS, where the standardrestorer binary allows local users to write to arbitrary files. This flaw carries a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating that an attacker with local access can easily gain root privileges with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog or Hot List, public exploit code exists (EDB-43926), though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:haystacksoftware:arq:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.