Command Injection Affecting mkj/dropbear package, versions [,2025.88)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MKJDROPBEAR-10189177
  • published22 May 2025
  • disclosed7 May 2025
  • creditMarcin Nowak

Introduced: 7 May 2025

NewCVE-2025-47203  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mkj/dropbear to version 2025.88 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via an untrusted hostname argument. An attacker can execute arbitrary commands by injecting malicious input into the hostname parameter.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1