sshd in OpenSSH before 10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption from excessive authentication attempts) because MaxAuthTries was mishandled for GSSAPIAuthentication.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · openbsdNVD modified 2026-10-25 20:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 3
- https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=178333966933090&w=2 Release Notes
- https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.4p1 Release Notes
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/06/5 Mailing List, Release Notes