Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mkj/dropbear package, versions [,2017.75)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MKJDROPBEAR-2365654
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed19 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 19 May 2017

CVE-2017-9079  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mkj/dropbear to version 2017.75 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. 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.

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