CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-7598
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/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])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 (0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c)
- 9.1 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189, CWE-190
Description
A security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len leads to integer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is 256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
Affected configurations
• libssh2 libssh2 (<= 1.11.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/ Product
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1 Patch
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1858 Issue Tracking
- https://vuldb.com/submit/805564 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/360555 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/360555/cti Permissions Required, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16736 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61752 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7021 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7598 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2464597 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-7598.json security.access.redhat.com
- https://vuldb.com/submit/805564 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry