CVE-2017-9079 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Dropbear before version 2017.75, affecting Debian Linux and Dropbear SSH. A local attacker could read arbitrary files as root if the target user's authorized_keys file contains a command= option, due to improper handling of symlinks when reading the file with root privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS v3 score of 4.7 (Medium), indicating a low-complexity attack with high confidentiality impact, but requires local access. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2017.75CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.