CVE-2026-66034
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.
Published:Jul 24, 2026
Last Modified:Jul 28, 2026
EPS:Jul 24, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00254
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Libssh2
Product
Libssh2
Libssh2
Libssh2
Vendor
Redhat
Product
Hummingbird
Redhat
Hummingbird
Exploits
No exploit reference
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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