Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-15638

Title: Vulnerable libtomcrypt in Net::Dropbear

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-15638.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Apr 21, 2026
Modified Date Apr 22, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 10.0 CVSS v
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.02%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-15638: Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 for Perl contains a vulnerable version of libtomcrypt. Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 includes versions of Dropbear 2019.78 or earlier. These include versions of libtomcrypt v1.18.1 or earlier, which is affected by CVE-2016-6129 and CVE-2018-12437.

Impacted Vendors

N
net-dns 1
A
atrodo 1

Reference Links

https://metacpan.org/release/ATRODO/Net-Dropbear-0.14/source/dropbear/libtomcrypt/changes https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6129 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12437
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity CRITICAL
10.0
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
CHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-15638 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.