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CVE-2016-7408

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The dbclient in Dropbear SSH before 2016.74 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) -m or (2) -c argument.

Affected products

• [UNKNOWN] dropbear: through 2016.73

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92970
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353
• https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/eed9376a4ad6
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-23
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92970
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353
• https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/eed9376a4ad6
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-23

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