CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-4878
3.6 LOW
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-07-22
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.6 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A vulnerability was found in libssh, where an uninitialized variable exists under certain conditions in the privatekey_from_file() function. This flaw can be triggered if the file specified by the filename doesn't exist and may lead to possible signing failures or heap corruption.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4878 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376184 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=697650caa97eaf7623924c75f9fcfec6dd423cd1 git.libssh.org
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=b35ee876adc92a208d47194772e99f9c71e0bedb git.libssh.org
- https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-4878.txt www.libssh.org