CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-15661
8.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-06-18
- Last modified
- 2026-10-12
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 8.3 HIGH — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 2dae302, contains an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in the sftp_symlink() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server or man-in-the-middle attacker to disclose heap memory contents or cause a crash by sending a crafted SSH_FXP_NAME response. Attackers can supply a link_len value larger than the actual packet data in SSH_FXP_NAME responses for SFTP READLINK and REALPATH operations, triggering a heap buffer over-read of up to target_len minus one bytes due to the missing validation of available packet buffer size before the memcpy operation.
Affected configurations
• libssh2 libssh2 (<= 1.11.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/2dae3024897e1898d389835151f4e9606227721d Patch
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1705 Patch
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1717 Patch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-heap-buffer-over-read-via-sftp-symlink-in-sftp-c Third Party Advisory