CVE-2016-3116

medium
Published 2016-03-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v2
5.5
VIR risk
6.4

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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-3116

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed2016.72-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2016.72-1
debian debianforkyfixed2016.72-1
debian debiansidfixed2016.72-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2016.72-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
dropbear_ssh_projectdropbear_ssh{"endIncluding":"2015.71"}

References

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