CVE-2025-14282
MEDIUMDescription
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.
How to fix
Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Exploit Intelligence
Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 28% of all known CVEs.
References
Related Vulnerabilities
Other CWE-266 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all
| CVE | Severity | CVSS | EPSS | Exploited | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-28000 | Critical | 9.8 | 68% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2025-27007 | Critical | 9.8 | 51% | - | - |
| CVE-2025-47539 | Critical | 9.8 | 31% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2022-20759 | High | 8.8 | 28% | - | Fix |
| CVE-2024-13106 | Medium | 5.3 | 27% | - | - |
| CVE-2024-3013 | Medium | 6.3 | 23% | - | - |
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