CVE-2026-7598 (GCVE-0-2026-7598)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-01 21:30 – Updated: 2026-07-15 00:39 X_Open Source
VLAI
Title
libssh2 userauth.c userauth_password integer overflow
Summary
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.
Severity
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
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:X/RL:O/RC:C
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
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CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a libssh2 Affected: 1.11.0
Affected: 1.11.1
    cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images Unaffected: 1.95.0-5.hum1 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1
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Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images Unaffected: 1.11.1-5.1.hum1 , < * (rpm)
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Update Service     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_update_service:5
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Red Hat Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer     cpe:/a:redhat:trusted_profile_analyzer:2
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