CVE-2017-9079
MEDIUM4.7EPSS 0.06%dropbear - security update
Published: 5/19/2017Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/dropbearfrom 0, < 2017.75-r0
- Debian/dropbearfrom 0, < 2016.74-5
- Debian/dropbearfrom 0, < 2012.55-1.3+deb7u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.7 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |