CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-66032

HighCVSS 8.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

Double-free vulnerability in sftp_open() in libssh2 up to 1.11.1, allowing a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exploit the double-free to achieve overlapping allocations and overwrite function pointers, potentially leading to code execution.

Recommendation

Update libssh2 to a version containing the fix (commit 5e47761) or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.

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