CVE-2025-14282 PUBLISHED

privilege escalation via unix domain socket forwardings

Assigner: fedora
Reserved: 08.12.2025 Published: 12.02.2026 Updated: 12.02.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.4

Product Status

Vendor Dropbear
Product Dropbear
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2024.84 to 2025.88 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-266 CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation