CVE-2017-9079

MediumCVSS 4.7/10Last modified Jun 17, 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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 4.7/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-732

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 19, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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