CVE-2025-5689: Improper Permission Management in SSH Session Handling
Canonical · authd
Affected: Canonical authd · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 24% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
A flaw was found in the temporary user record that authd uses in the pre-auth NSS. As a result, a user login for the first time will be considered to be part of the root group in the context of that SSH session.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Canonical · authdfrom 0.0.0 up to and including 0.5.4
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