CVE-2016-3116
CRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.
02 Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 19.80% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.4 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2016-03-22 10:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 23:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-03-10
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b7a55b8027b7211543c981096715bb07c093e9cf2fe85442ea2a1eddc8c72e13
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/tintinweb/pub/tree/master/pocs/cve-2016-3115
- matt.ucc.asn.auhttps://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/CHANGES
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-40a657cee1http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179269.html
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136251/Dropbear-SSHD-xauth-Command-Injection-Bypass.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-332491de28http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179261.html
- seclists.org20160314 CVE-2016-3116 - Dropbear SSH xauth injectionhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Mar/47
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-bc45faa824http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/179870.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0882http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00113.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201607-08https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-08
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0874http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-03/msg00105.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- dropbear Fixed in 2016.72-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- dropbear Fixed in 2016.72-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- dropbear Fixed in 2016.72-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.