CVE-2006-1206: Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSH

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSH: up to and including 0.47

Published 2006-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.