cve-2017-9079
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-19 14:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:55
Severity ?
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2017q2/001985.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3859Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0006/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2017q2/001985.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3859Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191004-0006/
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