CVE-2025-5689

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5689
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5689.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-5689
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-06-16T11:37:12.230Z
Modified
2026-05-18T05:57:35.503938606Z
Severity
  • 8.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Improper Permission Management in SSH Session Handling
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/5xxx/CVE-2025-5689.json",
    "cna_assigner": "canonical"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/canonical/authd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/canonical/authd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
f97279aeb2887ef885d099c3c6b2487fc8f24ab4
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.5.4"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.3.5
v0.*
v0.1
v0.2.1
v0.3.2
v0.3.3
v0.3.5
v0.3.6
v0.3.7
v0.5.4

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5689.json"