CVE-2025-8114
4.7 MEDIUMA flaw was found in libssh, a library that implements the SSH protocol
Published: 2025-07-24 · Last updated: 2026-05-19
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 4.7 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-476
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| libssh | libssh |
Description
A flaw was found in libssh, a library that implements the SSH protocol. When calculating the session ID during the key exchange (KEX) process, an allocation failure in cryptographic functions may lead to a NULL pointer dereference. This issue can cause the client or server to crash.
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8114
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683
- [Other]https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8114
- [Other]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383220
- [Other]https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=53ac23ded4cb2c5463f6c4cd1525331bd578812d
- [Other]https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=65f363c9
- [Other]https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-8114.txt
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