CVE-2017-9079

MEDIUM

Dropbear <2017.75 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm

Description

Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow local users to read certain files as root, if the file has the authorized_keys file format with a command= option. This occurs because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is read with root privileges and symlinks are followed.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 24.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-732
Status published
Products (3)
dropbear_ssh_project/dropbear_ssh < 2017.75
debian/debian_linux
n/a/n/a
Published May 19, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026