CVE-2025-14282
dropbear - security update
Description
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 CVE-2025-14282
To remediate CVE-2025-14282, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2025.89-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 2025.89-1~deb13u1 or later
- —upgrade to 2025.89-1~deb13u1 or later
Is CVE-2025-14282 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 2025.89-r0
- from 0, < 2025.89-1~deb13u1
- from 0, < 2025.89-1~deb13u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |