CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2026-59847
High (7.5). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A flaw was found in libssh. Incorrect AES-GCM finalization checks in builds using the OpenSSL backend can effectively remove integrity protection, allowing an in-path attacker to modify plaintext on the wire without detection.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 26% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-253, CWE-1310
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- libssh:libssh
- redhat:enterprise_linux
- redhat:hardened_images