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CVE-2025-15661

CVSS 6.5 MEDIUMEPSS 18%CWE-125

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 2dae302, contains an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in the sftp_symlink() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server or man-in-the-middle attacker to disclose heap memory contents or cause a crash by sending a crafted SSH_FXP_NAME response. Attackers can supply a link_len value larger than the actual packet data in SSH_FXP_NAME responses for SFTP READLINK and REALPATH operations, triggering a heap buffer over-read of up to target_len minus one bytes due to the missing validation of available packet buffer size before the memcpy oper...

Published 2026-06-18 · last modified 2026-06-22

details

CISA KEV status
Not in catalog
CVSS v3
6.5 / MEDIUM
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
EPSS
18% percentile (score 0.0027)
CWE
CWE-125

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