4.5mediumMedium

CVE-2025-4877

There's a vulnerability in the libssh package where when a libssh consumer passes in an unexpectedly large input buffer to ssh_get_fingerprint_hash() function. In such cases the bin_to_base64() function can experience an integer overflow leading to a memory under allocation, when that happens it's possible that the program perform out of bounds write leading to a heap corruption. This issue affects only 32-bits builds of libssh.

What the metrics mean

  • It is requires local access to the machine.
  • For an attacker who can reach it, exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control.
  • To exploit it, an ordinary user account is needed.
  • Beyond that, no action by a user is required.

Scoring

CVSS
4.5 (v3.1)
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Weakness
CWE-787
Assigned by
secalert@redhat.com

Dates

Published
2025-08-20
Last modified
2026-08-31
Sources
NVD

References