CVE-2025-14282
A flaw was found in Dropbear. When running in multi-user mode and authenticating users, the dropbear ssh server does the socket forwardings requested by the remote client as root, only switching to the logged-in user upon spawning a shell or performing some operations like reading the user's files. With the recent ability of also using unix domain sockets as the forwarding destination any user able to log in via ssh can connect to any unix socket with the root's credentials, bypassing both file system restrictions and any SO_PEERCRED / SO_PASSCRED checks performed by the peer.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Puntuación base: 5.4
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 0.38%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 30
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
⚠ Inferidas por IA a partir de la descripción — NVD aún no ha analizado esta CVE; no son CPE verificados.
CWE
- CWE-266
Referencias
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14282
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420052
- https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/391
- https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/394
- https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/16/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/17/1
JSON original (NVD)
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