THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-3116
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-3116

Dropbear Ssh vulnerability

CVSS
6.4
EPSS
19.3%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
CRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.
Affected vendor
Dropbear Ssh Project
Affected product
Dropbear Ssh
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Published
2016-03-22

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality, low impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 19.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-3116

  • Confirm whether Dropbear Ssh Project Dropbear Ssh is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-3116.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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