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CVE-2017-9079
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.7
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-19T14:29:00.310 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:27.160

Summary

Dropbear before 2017.75 might allow local users to read certain files as root, if the file has the authorized_keys file format with a command= option. This occurs because ~/.ssh/authorized_keys is read with root privileges and symlinks are followed.

Affected products

dropbear_ssh_project — dropbear_ssh

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References

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