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7.7 HighCWE-122
CVE-2026-66035

libssh2 vulnerability

libssh2

Status
  • Not in CISA KEV
  • Vendor fix available
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 26 Oct
0.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

Higher than 40% of scored CVEs

SeverityCVSS
7.7High

Description NVD

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 42e33d8, contains a pre-authentication heap buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt heap metadata in any connecting client by sending a packet with a packet_length smaller than the cipher's block size during Encrypt-then-MAC cipher negotiation. In the fullpacket() function in src/transport.c, the ETM path allocates a buffer of packet_length bytes but copies blocksize minus one bytes via memcpy, causing an overflow that on 32-bit glibc writes attacker-controlled bytes into an adjacent chunk's SIZE field, enabling tcache bin confusion, overlapping live objects, and function pointer overwrite during the session handshake before authentication.

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