CVE-2026-66034CWE-125CWE-908

libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem

High · published July 24, 2026

CVSS v4.0
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
33.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00402 · 33.3th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read; CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2026-07-24T16:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 JUL 16:42Z
    libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem
    cvelistv5