CVSS 3.1
8.2 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HCVE-2026-0966
High (8.2). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in libssh. The API function `ssh_get_hexa()` is vulnerable to a denial of service when processing zero-length input. This can be exploited remotely by an attacker during GSSAPI (Generic Security Service Application Program Interface) authentication if the server's logging verbosity is set to `SSH_LOG_PACKET (3)` or higher. Successful exploitation could lead to a self-Denial of Service of the per-connection daemon process.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 48% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-124
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- libssh:libssh
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:hardened_images
- redhat:openshift_container_platform