Bug 2420052 (CVE-2025-14282) - CVE-2025-14282 dropbear: privilege escalation via unix domain socket forwardings
Summary: CVE-2025-14282 dropbear: privilege escalation via unix domain socket forwardings
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-14282
Deadline: 2025-12-16
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2427282 2427283 2427284
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2025-12-08 16:51 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-06 02:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-08 16:51:55 UTC
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 SO_PEERCRED / SO_PASSCRED checks performed by the peer.


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