CVE-2021-36369 — Improper Authentication in Dropbear
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 65.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 12
Latest updateFeb 25
Description
An issue was discovered in Dropbear through 2020.81. Due to a non-RFC-compliant check of the available authentication methods in the client-side SSH code, it is possible for an SSH server to change the login process in its favor. This attack can bypass additional security measures such as FIDO2 tokens or SSH-Askpass. Thus, it allows an attacker to abuse a forwarded agent for logging on to another server unnoticed.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages4 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 10.0