CVE-2026-66032CWE-415

CVE-2026-66032

High · published July 24, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00448 · 38.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-415 · Double Free
Published
2026-07-24T21:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
libssh2/libssh2≤ 1.11.1—
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUL 16:32Z
    libssh2 Double-Free Heap Corruption via sftp_open()
    cvelistv5