Security Advisory

CVE-2017-9079

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-05-19 14:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 16:55:21
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.