Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-7409

Title: Dropbear Ssh Project Dropbear Ssh Information Disclosure

Information Disclosure

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-7409.

CWE Category CWE-200

Published Date Mar 03, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.12%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-7409: The dbclient and server in Dropbear SSH before 2016.74, when compiled with DEBUG_TRACE, allows local users to read process memory via the -v argument, related to a failed remote ident.

Impacted Vendors

dropbear_ssh_project 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92973 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353 https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/6a14b1f6dc04 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-23 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/2 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92973 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353 https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/6a14b1f6dc04 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-23

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

2.1

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns