CVE-2025-47203

medium

Description

dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untrusted hostname argument, because a shell is used.

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00020.html

https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/src/cli-main.c

https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/10

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/09/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-05-07

Updated: 2025-05-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00365