CVE-2025-5449 Information

Jul 26, 2025 cve

Description

A flaw was found in the SFTP server message decoding logic of libssh. The issue occurs due to an incorrect packet length check that allows an integer overflow when handling large payload sizes on 32-bit systems. This issue leads to failed memory allocation and causes the server process to crash resulting in a denial of service.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5449 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2369705 https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.11&id=261612179f740bc62ba363d98b3bd5e5573a811f https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.11&id=3443aec90188d6aab9282afc80a81df5ab72c4da https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.11&id=5504ff40515439a5fecbb17da7483000c4d12eb7 https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.11&id=78485f446af9b30e37eb8f177b81940710d54496 https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.11&id=f79ec51b7fd519dbc5737a7ba826e3ed093f6ceb https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-5449.txt

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

LOW

Base Severity

4.3

CNNVD-202507-3330 (Published: 2025-07-25)

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