CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-110925

MediumCVSS 5.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

14th percentile - higher than 14% of all known CVEs

Summary

A flaw was found in OpenSSH. A username entered on the ssh command line can still contain '$' or a non-trailing backslash. When a configuration expands %u inside ProxyCommand or Match exec, those characters are passed into the shell.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can inject shell commands via a specially crafted username, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution on the client machine.

Recommendation

Update OpenSSH to a version containing the fix when available, and avoid using special characters in usernames.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in OpenSSH. A username entered on the ssh command line can still contain '$' or a non-trailing backslash. When a configuration expands %u inside ProxyCommand or Match exec, those characters are passed into the shell.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS