Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-66032
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 19.7%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 8.8
Products affected by CVE-2026-66032
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:-
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.10
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.11
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.12
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.13
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.14
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.15
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.16
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.17
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.18
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.10.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.3
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.4
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.5
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.6
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.7
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.8
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.2.9
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:libssh2:libssh2:1.9.0