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CVE-2016-3116

CVE-2016-3116 PUBLISHED

Reported by mitre · Published March 22, 2016

CRLF injection vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.72 allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended shell-command restrictions via crafted X11 forwarding data.

Fixed versions

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PackageEcosystemFixed in
dropbear_sshdropbear_ssh_project2015.71

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/an/a
n/an/a*

Timeline

  • Mar 22, 2016 CVE Published
  • Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score (30 in total, the first dated here)
  • Apr 5, 2026 Security Advisory (4 in total, the first dated here)
  • Jun 17, 2026 CVE Updated
  • Oct 9, 2026 Coalition ESS Score

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The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln CVE-2016-3116
vulnetix vdb fixes CVE-2016-3116

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/CVE-2016-3116/fixes/registry"

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