CVE catalog
CVE-2025-47203
dropbear: CVE-2025-47203
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N - Published
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.59% · Oct 25, 2026
dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untrusted hostname argument, because a shell is used.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | dropbear | sid | 2026.94-1 | fixed |
| Debian | dropbear | forky | 2026.94-1 | fixed |
| Debian | dropbear | trixie | 2025.89-1~deb13u1 | fixed |
| Debian | dropbear | trixie-security | 2025.89-1~deb13u1 | fixed |
| Debian | dropbear | bookworm | 2022.83-1+deb12u3 | fixed |
| Alpine | dropbear | 3.24 | 2025.88-r0 | fixed |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 16.04 | 2014.65-1ubuntu2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 16.04 | 2015.68-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 16.04 | 2015.70-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 16.04 | 2015.71-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 16.04 | 2016.72-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | pro | 2019.78-2build1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | pro | 2019.78-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 22.04 | 2020.81-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 22.04 | 2020.81-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 22.04 | 2020.81-5 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 22.04 | 2020.81-5ubuntu0.1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 24.04 | 2022.83-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 24.04 | 2022.83-3 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 24.04 | 2022.83-4 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 25.10 | 2024.86-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | dropbear | 25.10 | 2025.88-2 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
| Distribution | Package | Type | Release | Fixed version | Urgency | Origin | Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | dropbear | source | sid | 2025.88-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | dropbear | source | forky | 2025.88-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | dropbear | source | trixie | 2025.88-1 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Debian | dropbear | source | bookworm | 2022.83-1+deb12u3 | not yet assigned | Not reported | Not reported |
| Alpine | dropbear | apk | 3.24 | 2025.88-r0 | Not reported | ALPINE-CVE-2025-47203 | Not reported |
OpenFactory catalog packages
[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]
- [dropbear]Fixed
Details (2)
2022.83-1+deb12u3· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
2022.83-1+deb12u3· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
- [dropbear-bin]Fixed
Source package: [dropbear]
Details (2)
2022.83-1+deb12u3· amd64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
2022.83-1+deb12u3· arm64 · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
- [dropbear-initramfs]Fixed
Source package: [dropbear]
Details (2)
2022.83-1+deb12u3· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
2022.83-1+deb12u3· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
- [dropbear-run]Fixed
Source package: [dropbear]
Details (2)
2022.83-1+deb12u3· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
2022.83-1+deb12u3· all · bookwormFixed · Fixed:
2022.83-1+deb12u3dsa · dropbear · debian · bookworm; dsa · dropbear · debian · 12
[Debian 13 (Trixie)]
- [dropbear]Fixed
Details (4)
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixie-securityFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixie-securityFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
- [dropbear-bin]Fixed
Source package: [dropbear]
Details (4)
2025.89-1~deb13u1· amd64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· arm64 · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· amd64 · trixie-securityFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· arm64 · trixie-securityFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
- [dropbear-initramfs]Fixed
Source package: [dropbear]
Details (4)
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixieFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixie-securityFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
2025.89-1~deb13u1· all · trixie-securityFixed · Fixed:
2025.88-1dsa · dropbear · debian · 13
Observed:
References
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/ALPINE-CVE-2025-47203]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47203]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DLA-4169-1]
- [https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-47203]
- [https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-47203]
- [https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2025/cve-2025-47203.json]
- [https://wid.cert-bund.de/.well-known/csaf/white/2025/wid-sec-w-2025-0966.json]
[CERT-Bund public advisories] · [Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database] · [Red Hat security advisories and VEX]