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CVE-2025-5689 HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation flaw in authd's temporary user record handling during pre-authentication NSS operations that causes first-time SSH login users to be incorrectly assigned root group membership within their session context. This allows authenticated users (PR:L) to gain elevated group privileges over the network (AV:N) with low complexity, affecting system confidentiality (C:H) and integrity (I:L). The vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.5, though real-world exploitation requires valid login credentials and depends on authentication infrastructure specifics.

Privilege Escalation Linux Ssh Authentication Bypass Authd +1
NVD GitHub
CVSS 3.1
8.5
EPSS
0.0%
CVE-2025-5689
EPSS 0% CVSS 8.5
HIGH PATCH This Week

Privilege escalation flaw in authd's temporary user record handling during pre-authentication NSS operations that causes first-time SSH login users to be incorrectly assigned root group membership within their session context. This allows authenticated users (PR:L) to gain elevated group privileges over the network (AV:N) with low complexity, affecting system confidentiality (C:H) and integrity (I:L). The vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 8.5, though real-world exploitation requires valid login credentials and depends on authentication infrastructure specifics.

Privilege Escalation Linux Ssh +3
NVD GitHub

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