Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Jun 18, 2026· Updated Jul 14, 2026
CVE-2025-15661
CVE-2025-15661
Description
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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Affected products
10- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libssh2_org&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:apk/chainguard/libssh2-docpkg:apk/chainguard/libssh2pkg:apk/wolfi/libssh2-docpkg:rpm/opensuse/libssh2_org&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:apk/wolfi/libssh2pkg:apk/wolfi/libssh2-devpkg:apk/chainguard/libssh2-dev
< 1.11.1-3.1+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-r7
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-r7
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-r7
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-160000.5.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-r7
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-r7
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-r7
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4News mentions
1- Public PoC Released for Critical libssh2 CVE-2026-55200 Client-Side SSH FlawThe Hacker News · Jun 29, 2026