CVE-2025-47203

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-78 OS Command Injections

Publication date:

07/05/2025

Last modified:

17/05/2025

Description

dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untrusted hostname argument, because a shell is used.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.50

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/src/cli-main.c
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/10
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/3
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00020.html