CVE-2025-14282

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.004 · 35 %ileDEEU

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.40% (35th) EPSS

CVSS 5.4 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

5.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Nsecondary · patrick@puiterwijk.orgexploitability 2.8 · impact 2.5

v3.15mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-266US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Debian Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:-
Open Source Dropbear SSH <2025.89all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Dropbear SSH< 2025.89cert_bundDE
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/ dropbear2024.84 → 2025.88enisa_euvdEU

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2866Dropbear SSH: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Erlangen von AdministratorrechtenDeutsch2025-12-16csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Dropbear SSH ausnutzen, um Administratorrechte zu erlangen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-02-12modified 2026-06-17

references (20)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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