A flaw was found in libssh, a library that implements the SSH protocol. When calculating the session ID during the key exchange (KEX) process, an allocation failure in cryptographic functions may lea…
Medium CVSS 4.7
Summary
A flaw was found in libssh, a library that implements the SSH protocol. When calculating the session ID during the key exchange (KEX) process, an allocation failure in cryptographic functions may lead to a NULL pointer dereference. This issue can cause the client or server to crash.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
- :
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8114 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383220 Issue Tracking
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=53ac23ded4cb2c5463f6c4cd1525331bd578812d
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=65f363c9
- https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-8114.txt
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD