Name
dropbear
Version
2020.81
Type
library
Description
A lightweight SSH and SCP implementation
Licenses
MIT & BSD-3-Clause & BSD-2-Clause & PD
PURL
-
CPE
cpe:2.3:*:dropbear_ssh_project:dropbear_ssh:2020.81:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Other Versions#
Patches#
#
Title
Author
Resolve
1
added option to disable trivial auth methods (#128)
Manfred Kaiser <37737811+manfred-kaiser@users.noreply.github.com>
CVE-2021-36369
2
Execute multihop commands directly, no shell
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
CVE-2025-47203
3
Implement Strict KEX mode
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
CVE-2023-48795
4
dropbear: new feature: disable-weak-ciphers
Joseph Reynolds <joseph.reynolds1@ibm.com>
5
Handle arbitrary length paths and commands in
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
6
Add m_snprintf() that won't return negative
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
7
urandom-xauth-changes-to-options.h
Unknown
8
scp CVE-2019-6111 fix
Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>
CVE-2019-6111
9
dropbear configuration file
Mingli Yu <Mingli.Yu@windriver.com>
10
Fix possible integer overflow
czurnieden <czurnieden@gmx.de>
CVE-2023-36328
11
Enable pam
Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen@intel.com>
Vulnerabilities#
Name
Analysis
Description
Patched
dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2025.88 allows command injection via an untrusted hostname argument, because a shell is used.
Patched
The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass integrity checks such that some packets are omitted (from the extension negotiation message), and a client and server may consequently end up with a connection for which some security features have been downgraded or disabled, aka a Terrapin attack. This occurs because the SSH Binary Packet Protocol (BPP), implemented by these extensions, mishandles the handshake phase and mishandles use of sequence numbers. For example, there is an effective attack against SSH's use of ChaCha20-Poly1305 (and CBC with Encrypt-then-MAC). The bypass occurs in chacha20-poly1305@openssh.com and (if CBC is used) the -etm@openssh.com MAC algorithms. This also affects Maverick Synergy Java SSH API before 3.1.0-SNAPSHOT, Dropbear through 2022.83, Ssh before 5.1.1 in Erlang/OTP, PuTTY before 0.80, AsyncSSH before 2.14.2, golang.org/x/crypto before 0.17.0, libssh before 0.10.6, libssh2 through 1.11.0, Thorn Tech SFTP Gateway before 3.4.6, Tera Term before 5.1, Paramiko before 3.4.0, jsch before 0.2.15, SFTPGo before 2.5.6, Netgate pfSense Plus through 23.09.1, Netgate pfSense CE through 2.7.2, HPN-SSH through 18.2.0, ProFTPD before 1.3.8b (and before 1.3.9rc2), ORYX CycloneSSH before 2.3.4, NetSarang XShell 7 before Build 0144, CrushFTP before 10.6.0, ConnectBot SSH library before 2.2.22, Apache MINA sshd through 2.11.0, sshj through 0.37.0, TinySSH through 20230101, trilead-ssh2 6401, LANCOM LCOS and LANconfig, FileZilla before 3.66.4, Nova before 11.8, PKIX-SSH before 14.4, SecureCRT before 9.4.3, Transmit5 before 5.10.4, Win32-OpenSSH before 9.5.0.0p1-Beta, WinSCP before 6.2.2, Bitvise SSH Server before 9.32, Bitvise SSH Client before 9.33, KiTTY through 0.76.1.13, the net-ssh gem 7.2.0 for Ruby, the mscdex ssh2 module before 1.15.0 for Node.js, the thrussh library before 0.35.1 for Rust, and the Russh crate before 0.40.2 for Rust.
Patched
Integer Overflow vulnerability in mp_grow in libtom libtommath before commit beba892bc0d4e4ded4d667ab1d2a94f4d75109a9, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code and cause a denial of service (DoS).
Patched
An issue was discovered in Dropbear through 2020.81. Due to a non-RFC-compliant check of the available authentication methods in the client-side SSH code, it is possible for an SSH server to change the login process in its favor. This attack can bypass additional security measures such as FIDO2 tokens or SSH-Askpass. Thus, it allows an attacker to abuse a forwarded agent for logging on to another server unnoticed.
Patched
An issue was discovered in OpenSSH 7.9. Due to the scp implementation being derived from 1983 rcp, the server chooses which files/directories are sent to the client. However, the scp client only performs cursory validation of the object name returned (only directory traversal attacks are prevented). A malicious scp server (or Man-in-The-Middle attacker) can overwrite arbitrary files in the scp client target directory. If recursive operation (-r) is performed, the server can manipulate subdirectories as well (for example, to overwrite the .ssh/authorized_keys file).