Cyber Resilience

CVE-2020-36254

High

Published: 25 February 2021

Published
25 February 2021
Modified
03 December 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0035 57.8th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2020-36254 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Dropbear Ssh Project Dropbear Ssh. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

scp.c in Dropbear before 2020.79 mishandles the filename of . or an empty filename, a related issue to CVE-2018-20685.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

dropbear ssh project
dropbear ssh
≤ 2020.79

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References