CVE-2025-14282

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14282
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-14282.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-14282
Downstream
Published
2026-02-12T21:37:57.157Z
Modified
2026-07-15T01:49:20.397912360Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Dropbear: privilege escalation via unix domain socket forwardings
Details

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, only switching to the logged-in user upon spawning a shell or performing some operations like reading the user's files. With 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 SOPEERCRED / SOPASSCRED checks performed by the peer.

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-266"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/14xxx/CVE-2025-14282.json",
    "cna_assigner": "fedora"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mkj/dropbear

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear
Events
Introduced
047bdd4cb0eefcc0011f2c5ed3248a987538bcf3
Fixed
887241694277b3816da5d174932c10546ea9d2c5
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2024.84"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "2025.88"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

DROPBEAR_2024.*
DROPBEAR_2024.84
DROPBEAR_2024.85
DROPBEAR_2024.86
DROPBEAR_2025.*
DROPBEAR_2025.87

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-14282.json"