vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-9079): dropbear vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 19, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

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.

Solution

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