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CVE-2026-58051highCWE-908

libssh2 - Free of Uninitialized Pointer in publickey List Cleanup

41Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendcvss 8.3epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 80% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
libssh2 through 1.11.1 grows its publickey list with SSH2_REALLOC but does not zero-initialize new entries before parsing populates them, so a parse failure reaching the cleanup path leaves libssh2_publickey_list_free operating on an uninitialized entry. A malicious SSH server offering the publickey subsystem can use a malformed response to make cleanup free an uninitialized, attacker-influenceable attrs pointer in a connecting libssh2 client.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
libssh2 · libssh2
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