CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9079

4.7 MEDIUM Published 2017-05-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-732

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 configurations

• dropbear ssh project dropbear ssh (< 2017.75) • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness

References