CVE-2025-8114
mediumA flaw was found in libssh, a library that implements the SSH protocol.
Vendor / product: Libssh — libssh
A flaw was found in libssh, a library that implements the SSH protocol. When calculating the session ID during the key exchange (KEX) process, an allocation failure in cryptographic functions may lead to a NULL pointer dereference. This issue can cause the client or server to crash.
CVSS
4.7
4.7 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-07-24 15:15
Modified: 2026-11-05 17:17
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 9 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-11-05 17:18 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
libssh / libssh ≤0.11.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-8114 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2383220 secalert@redhat.com
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=53ac23ded4cb2c5463f6c4cd1525331bd578... secalert@redhat.com
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?id=65f363c9 secalert@redhat.com
- https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-8114.txt secalert@redhat.com
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-11-05 17:18 UTC · record ↗