CVE-2025-15638

10.0 CRITICAL

Published: April 21, 2026 Modified: April 22, 2026

Description

Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 for Perl contains a vulnerable version of libtomcrypt. Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 includes versions of Dropbear 2019.78 or earlier. These include versions of libtomcrypt v1.18.1 or earlier, which is affected by CVE-2016-6129 and CVE-2018-12437.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://metacpan.org/release/ATRODO/Net-Dropbear-0.14/source/dropbear/libtomcrypt/changes

Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Release Notes

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6129

Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Third Party Advisory

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12437

Source: 9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e

Third Party Advisory

3 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score

10.0 / 10.0

EPSS (Exploit Probability)

0.0%

5th percentile

Exploitation Status

Not in CISA KEV

Affected Vendors

atrodo