CVE-2007-1099: Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSH

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

dbclient in Dropbear SSH client before 0.49 does not sufficiently warn the user when it detects a hostkey mismatch, which might allow remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks.

Affected products

• Dropbear SSH Project Dropbear SSH: before 0.49 (fixed in 0.49)

Published 2007-02-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.