CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-14821
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-07
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-427
Description
A flaw was found in libssh. This vulnerability allows local man-in-the-middle attacks, security downgrades of SSH (Secure Shell) connections, and manipulation of trusted host information, posing a significant risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of SSH communications via an insecure default configuration on Windows systems where the library automatically loads configuration files from the C:\etc directory, which can be created and modified by unprivileged local users.
Affected configurations
• libssh libssh (< 0.12.0)
• redhat hardened images
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7067 Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14821 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423148 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.libssh.org/2026/02/10/libssh-0-12-0-and-0-11-4-security-releases/ Release Notes