CVE-2026-66032

HIGH

libssh2 Double-Free Heap Corruption via sftp_open()

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0029
EPSS Percentile 21.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-415
Status published
Products (2)
libssh2/libssh2 < 1.11.1
libssh2/libssh2 5e4776146552d898b9c0e1b313cd093fa8dc92d0
Published Jul 24, 2026
Tracked Since Jul 24, 2026