USN-7292-1: dropbear Ubuntu

Published

Published 25-02-2025Last modified 27-04-2026

Vulnerability summary

USN-7292-1 is a vulnerability in dropbear Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Priority

Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?

CVSS score

Not scored

010

No CVSS score recorded

EPSS scoreNot scoredRisk metrics not yet published.

KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.

RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.

Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0 · Related 2

CVE-2021-36369 CVE-2023-48795

Timeline

25-02-2025
PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
27-04-2026
Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Several security issues were fixed in Dropbear Manfred Kaiser discovered that Dropbear through 2020.81 does not properly check the available authentication methods in the client-side SSH code. An attacker could use this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to remote systems. (CVE-2021-36369) Fabian Bäumer, Marcus Brinkmann, and Jörg Schwenk discovered that the SSH transport protocol implementation in Dropbear had weak integrity checks. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass security features like encryption and integrity checks. (CVE-2023-48795)