CVE-2021-36369

NameCVE-2021-36369
DescriptionAn 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3187-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
dropbear (PTS)bullseye2020.81-3+deb11u2fixed
bookworm2022.83-1+deb12u2fixed
sid, trixie2024.86-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
dropbearsourcebuster2018.76-5+deb10u2DLA-3187-1
dropbearsourcebullseye2020.81-3+deb11u1
dropbearsource(unstable)2022.82-1

Notes

https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/128
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/commit/210a9833496ed2a93b8da93924874938127ce0b5 (DROPBEAR_2022.82)

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