CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-66034

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.25%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

Missing bounds check in libssh2 up to 1.11.1, allowing a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can leak heap pointers bypassing ASLR and corrupt heap allocator state, potentially leading to code execution.

Recommendation

Update libssh2 to a version containing the fix (commit a13bb6c) or later.

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Original NVD description (English source)

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region.

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