CVE-2016-3116

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Published 2016-03-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

6.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

74%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-40119 remote linux

tintinweb · 2016-03-03

DropBearSSHD 2015.71 - Command Injection

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OS impact

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`2016.72-1`
sid	Fixed	`2016.72-1`
forky	Fixed	`2016.72-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`2016.72-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`2016.72-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
dropbear_ssh_project	dropbear_ssh	`{"endIncluding":"2015.71"}`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.