Information Exposure Affecting mkj/dropbear package, versions [,2016.74)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MKJDROPBEAR-2365658
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-7409  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mkj/dropbear to version 2016.74 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1