{"cve":"CVE-2025-14282","nvd":{"published":"2026-02-12T22:16:03.373","modified":"2026-06-17T08:35:39.997","status":"Deferred","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,\nonly switching to the logged-in user upon spawning a shell or performing\nsome operations like reading the user's files.\nWith 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_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N","score":5.4},"cwes":["CWE-266"],"references":["https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14282","https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2420052","https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/391","https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/394","https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q4/002390.html"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:23:35.260773158+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-14282","score":0.00405,"percentile":0.34803,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}