CVE-2025-47203
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.5 Medium
- Published
- May 7, 2025
- Updated
- May 17, 2025
- Reserved
- May 2, 2025
Description
dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untrusted hostname argument, because a shell is used.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | mitre |
Weaknesses
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Dropbear SSHDropbear SSH Project |
|
References
- https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/src/cli-main.c
- https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES
- 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/2025/05/13/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/10
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00020.html
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