VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-1206

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability11.67%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-03-14
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Matt Johnston Dropbear SSH server 0.47 and earlier, as used in embedded Linux devices and on general-purpose operating systems, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection slot exhaustion) via a large number of connection attempts that exceeds the MAX_UNAUTH_CLIENTS defined value of 30.

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