Dropbear < 2025.88 Command Injection Vulnerability
🗓️ 12 May 2025 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AGType
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| CVE-2025-47203 | 7 May 202500:00 | – | alpinelinux | |
| [ASA-202505-9] dropbear: arbitrary command execution | 19 May 202500:00 | – | archlinux | |
| CVE-2025-47203 | 7 May 202521:31 | – | circl | |
| dropbear 安全漏洞 | 7 May 202500:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2025-47203 | 7 May 202500:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2025-47203 | 7 May 202500:00 | – | cvelist | |
| [SECURITY] [DLA 4169-1] dropbear security update | 17 May 202520:28 | – | debian | |
| CVE-2025-47203 | 7 May 202500:00 | – | debiancve | |
| Debian dla-4169 : dropbear - security update | 17 May 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Fedora 41 : dropbear (2025-23ccf778c9) | 31 May 202500:00 | – | nessus |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.154473");
script_version("2025-09-02T05:39:48+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-02 05:39:48 +0000 (Tue, 02 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2025-05-12 02:29:03 +0000 (Mon, 12 May 2025)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.6");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2025-47203");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_name("Dropbear < 2025.88 Command Injection Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2025 Greenbone AG");
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_dropbear_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("dropbear_ssh/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Dropbear is prone to a command injection vulnerability in
dbclient.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"dbclient hostname arguments with a comma (for multihop) are
passed to the shell which could result in running arbitrary shell commands locally. That could be
a security issue in situations where dbclient is passed untrusted hostname arguments.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Dropbear version 2025.87 and prior.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 2025.88 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/blob/master/CHANGES");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://lists.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au/pipermail/dropbear/2025q2/002385.html");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/09/4");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_is_less(version: version, test_version: "2025.88")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "2025.88", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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02 Sep 2025 00:00Current
5.4Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.4
CVSS 3.14.5
EPSS0.00564
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