CVE-2026-66034

HIGH

libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

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