Security Advisories (2)
CVE-2025-40913 (2025-07-16)

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

CVE-2020-36254 (2021-02-25)

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

Changes for version 0.13 - 2020-03-21

  • Improve tests to avoid infinte hangs on bad tests
  • Handle newer versions of openssh that print extra information on some errors

Modules

Use Dropbear SSH inside of perl
Embed and control a Dropbear SSH client inside of perl (Not implemented yet)
Embed and control a Dropbear SSH server inside of perl
XS interface to Dropbear
Manage the authentication information of a user's login attempt.
Manage how a command session should be handled by Dropbear.