Critical 10.0Published Apr 21, 2026

CVE-2025-15638Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 for Perl contains a vulnerable version of libtomcrypt

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 2:20 AM ET)

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Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 for Perl contains a vulnerable version of libtomcrypt. Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 includes versions of Dropbear 2019.78 or earlier. These include versions of libtomcrypt v1.18.1 or earlier, which is affected by CVE-2016-6129 and CVE-2018-12437.

CVSS: 10.0 CRITICAL (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-1395
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: CPANSec
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Apr 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

ATRODO Net::Dropbear atrodo:net_dropbear (from the name)	before 0.14	CNA record
atrodo net::dropbear atrodo:net::dropbear	before 0.14	NVD

References

References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6129	vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12437	vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
https://metacpan.org/release/ATRODO/Net-Dropbear-0.14/source/dropbear/libtomcrypt/changes	release-notes

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