CVE-2025-47203 — OS Command Injection in SSH Project Dropbear SSH

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection4 documents4 sources
Severity
4.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 58.62%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSHDebian Dropbear
Timeline
PublishedMay 7

Description

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NExploitability: 1.4 | Impact: 2.7

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/dropbear< dropbear 2022.83-1+deb12u3 (bookworm)
▶Debiandropbear_ssh_project/dropbear_ssh< 2020.81-3+deb11u3+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-f2w6-r722-5fr8: dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025↗2025-05-07
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OSV
CVE-2025-47203: dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025↗2025-05-07
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Debian
CVE-2025-47203: dropbear - dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untruste...↗2025
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