CVE-2026-3706: medium-severity vulnerability in mkj Dropbear
mkj Dropbear S Range Check curve25519.c unpackneg signature verification
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.2%
A vulnerability was determined in mkj Dropbear up to 2025.89. Impacted is the function unpackneg of the file src/curve25519.c of the component S Range Check. This manipulation causes improper verification of cryptographic signature. The attack can be initiated remotely. The attack is considered to have high complexity. The exploitability is considered difficult. The actual existence of this vulnerability is currently in question. Patch name: fdec3c90a15447bd538641d85e5a3e3ac981011d. To fix this issue, it is recommended to deploy a patch. The project maintainer explains: "Signature Malleability is not exploitable in SSH protocol. (...) [A] PoC doesn't exist for SSH implementation, but rather it's against the internal API."
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Affected products
mkj · DropbearReferences
https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/commit/fdec3c90a15447bd538641d85e5a3e3ac981011dhttps://github.com/mkj/dropbear/issues/406https://github.com/mkj/dropbear/pull/407https://github.com/str4d/ed25519-java/issues/82#issue-727629226https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.349652https://vuldb.com/?id.349652https://vuldb.com/?submit.765933