CVE-2012-0920

Dropbear Ssh vulnerability

CVSS

7.1

EPSS

6.5%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Use-after-free vulnerability in Dropbear SSH Server 0.52 through 2012.54, when command restriction and public key authentication are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code and bypass command restrictions via multiple crafted command requests, related to "channels concurrency."

Affected vendor

Dropbear Ssh Project

Affected product

Dropbear Ssh

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-399

Published

2012-06-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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