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CVE-2025-47203 (GCVE-0-2025-47203)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-07 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-17 22:02

Summary

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

Severity

4.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-07 20:22 UTC

CWE

CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Assigner

mitre mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/src/c…
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/09/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/12/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/13/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/0…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Dropbear SSH Project	Dropbear SSH	Affected: 0 , < 2025.88 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh::::::::

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FKIE_CVE-2025-47203

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-07 18:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 09:27

Severity

4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Summary

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

References

	URL	Tags
	cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES
	cve@mitre.org	https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/src/cli-main.c
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	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00020.html

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-F2W6-R722-5FR8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-07 18:30 – Updated: 2025-05-18 00:30

Details

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

Severity

4.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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ubuntu-cve-2025-47203

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2025-05-07 18:15

Modified

2026-01-20 05:33

Summary

Details

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

Severity

4.5 (Medium)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-47203	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-47203	REPORT
	https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES	REPORT
	https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/src/c…	REPORT

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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47203",
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}

WID-SEC-W-2025-0966

Vulnerability from csaf_certbund - Published: 2025-05-07 22:00 - Updated: 2025-05-21 22:00

Summary

Dropbear SSH: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Codeausführung

Severity

Niedrig

Scope

1 vulnerability in this advisory, including CVE-2025-47203.

CVE-2025-47203

Known affected: 4 products

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CVE-2025-47203 (GCVE-0-2025-47203)

FKIE_CVE-2025-47203

GHSA-F2W6-R722-5FR8

ubuntu-cve-2025-47203

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

WID-SEC-W-2025-0966

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