CVSS 3.0
4.7 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2017-9079
Medium (4.7). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow local users to read certain files as root, if the file has the authorized_keys file format with a command= option. This occurs because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is read with root privileges and symlinks are followed.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 24% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-732
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh