CVE-2025-40913

medium

Description

Net::Dropbear versions through 0.16 for Perl contains a dependency that may be susceptible to an integer overflow. Net::Dropbear embeds a version of the libtommath library that is susceptible to an integer overflow associated with CVE-2023-36328.

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-36328

https://metacpan.org/release/ATRODO/Net-Dropbear-0.16/source/dropbear/libtommath/bn_mp_grow.c

https://github.com/libtom/libtommath/pull/546

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j3xv-6967-cv88

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-16

Updated: 2025-07-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

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