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

[Robert Rothenberg <rrwo () cpansec org>]

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CVE-2025-15638                                       CPAN Security Group
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        CVE ID:  CVE-2025-15638
  Distribution:  Net-Dropbear
      Versions:  before 0.14

      MetaCPAN:  https://metacpan.org/dist/Net-Dropbear
      VCS Repo:  https://github.com/atrodo/Net-Dropbear


Net::Dropbear versions before 0.14 for Perl contains a vulnerable
version of libtomcrypt

Description
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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.

Problem types
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- CWE-1395 Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component

References
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https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6129
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-12437
https://metacpan.org/release/ATRODO/Net-Dropbear-0.14/source/dropbear/libtomcrypt/changes