Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-66033
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a2ed82d, contains a pre-authentication integer underflow vulnerability in the ssh2_cipher_crypt() function in src/openssl.c that allows a malicious SSH server to crash any connecting client by negotiating AES-GCM ciphers during handshake. Attackers can exploit the underflow in the expression computing blocksize minus aadlen minus authentication tag length to trigger an out-of-bounds read and a memcpy call with a near-SIZE_MAX length argument, causing immediate process crash before any authentication occurs.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.004
EPSS Ranking 31.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-66033
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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