CVSS 4.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:PCVE-2026-10650
Medium (5.5). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw has been found in warmcat libwebsockets up to 4.5.8. This issue affects the function lws_ssh_parse_plaintext of the file plugins/protocol_lws_ssh_base/sshd.c of the component SSH Protocol Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument msg_len can lead to resource consumption. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used. This patch is called 3f9f0c6ecaf0e6f3f219d30632c5d1f2479d7498. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-400, CWE-404
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
References
- https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/blob/main/libwebsockets_sshd-parse-ic-unbounded-alloc/poc_sshd_unbounded_alloc.py
- https://github.com/biniamf/pocs/tree/main/libwebsockets_sshd-parse-ic-unbounded-alloc
- https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/
- https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/commit/3f9f0c6ecaf0e6f3f219d30632c5d1f2479d7498
- https://vuldb.com/cve/CVE-2026-10650