Vulnerabilites related to Dropbear SSH Project - Dropbear SSH
CVE-2025-47203 (GCVE-0-2025-47203)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-07 00:00
Modified
2025-05-17 22:02
CWE
  • CWE-78 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
Summary
dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untrusted hostname argument, because a shell is used.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSH Version: 0   < 2025.88
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