CVE-2026-66034
HIGHlibssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem
Title source: cnaDescription
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.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Patch patch
Patch Commit
https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/a13bb6c773f0d55ad1628cede57e99803cd898d9
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-publickey-subsystem
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0025
EPSS Percentile
17.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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-125
CWE-908
Status
published
Products (2)
libssh2/libssh2
< 1.11.1 (2 CPE variants)
libssh2/libssh2
a13bb6c773f0d55ad1628cede57e99803cd898d9
Published
Jul 24, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 24, 2026