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CVE-2025-14282

Dropbear: privilege escalation via unix domain socket forwardings

CVSS 5.4 MEDIUMEPSS 0.4%CWE-266
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 5.4EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
12 Feb 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

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