CVE-2017-9079
Published May 19, 2017
Last updated 5 years ago
Overview
- Description
- 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.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.7
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 1
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity
- MEDIUM
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.7
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.4
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-732
Configurations
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{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "1EA089DE-64AB-47E7-9643-6688DA0B0BED",
"versionEndExcluding": "2017.75"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
},
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "C11E6FB0-C8C0-4527-9AA0-CB9B316F8F43"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]