Bug 2427282

Summary:	CVE-2025-14282 dropbear: privilege escalation via unix domain socket forwardings [epel-8]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Patrick Del Bello <pdelbell>
Component:	dropbear	Assignee:	fedepell <fede>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	epel8	CC:	buytenh, epel-packagers-sig, fede, i
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Bug Blocks:	2420052

Description Patrick Del Bello 2026-01-06 02:41:37 UTC

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Comment 1 fedepell 2026-01-06 04:13:24 UTC

According to upstream:

- Security: Avoid privilege escalation via unix stream forwarding in Dropbear
  server. Other programs on a system may authenticate unix sockets via
  SO_PEERCRED, which would be root user for Dropbear forwarded connections,
  allowing root privilege escalation.
  Reported by Turistu, and thanks for advice on the fix.
  This is tracked as CVE-2025-14282, and affects 2024.84 to 2025.88.

So this should not affect EPEL8 (and EPEL9) current versions.