CVE-2026-66032

High

Description

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLibssh2
PublishedJul 24, 2026
First seenJul 24, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-415CWE-415

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libssh2 libssh2v ≤ 1.11.1—

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