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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.