CVE-2025-4877
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write
Publication date:
20/08/2025
Last modified:
30/06/2026
Description
There&#39;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&#39;s possible that the program perform out of bounds write leading to a heap corruption.<br />
This issue affects only 32-bits builds of libssh.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
4.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4877
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376193
- https://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git/commit/?h=stable-0.11&id=6fd9cc8ce3958092a1aae11f1f2e911b2747732d
- https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2025-4877.txt



