CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-66033

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.39%

31th percentile - higher than 31% of all known CVEs

Summary

Pre-authentication integer underflow in ssh2_cipher_crypt() in libssh2 up to 1.11.1, allowing a malicious SSH server to crash any connecting client by negotiating AES-GCM ciphers.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can crash the SSH client before authentication, leading to denial of service.

Recommendation

Update libssh2 to a version containing the fix (commit a2ed82d) or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a2ed82d, contains a pre-authentication integer underflow vulnerability in the ssh2_cipher_crypt() function in src/openssl.c that allows a malicious SSH server to crash any connecting client by negotiating AES-GCM ciphers during handshake. Attackers can exploit the underflow in the expression computing blocksize minus aadlen minus authentication tag length to trigger an out-of-bounds read and a memcpy call with a near-SIZE_MAX length argument, causing immediate process crash before any authentication occurs.

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