CVE-2026-7598
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 9.1 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cna@vuldb.com
- Published
- 2026-05-01
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
- Weaknesses
- CWE-189, CWE-190
Affected products
- Libssh2 (Libssh2)
- Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
- Hummingbird (Redhat)
- Openshift (Redhat)
- Openshift Update Service (Redhat)
- Trusted Profile Analyzer (Redhat)
References
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1858
- https://vuldb.com/submit/805564
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/360555
- https://vuldb.com/vuln/360555/cti
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16736
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:61752
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7021
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7598
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2464597
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-7598.json
