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CVE-2025-15661

8.3 high SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

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 operation.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 8.3 · libssh2NVD modified 2026-10-12 22:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 4