A vulnerability was found in libssh, where an uninitialized variable exists under certain conditions in the privatekey_from_file() function. This flaw can be triggered if the file specified by the fi…
Low CVSS 3.6
Summary
A vulnerability was found in libssh, where an uninitialized variable exists under certain conditions in the privatekey_from_file() function. This flaw can be triggered if the file specified by the filename doesn't exist and may lead to possible signing failures or heap corruption.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4878
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376184
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=697650caa97eaf7623924c75f9fcfec6dd423cd1
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=b35ee876adc92a208d47194772e99f9c71e0bedb
- https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-4878.txt
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD