CVE-2026-123158
8.1 HIGHpublic exploit availablePublished 2026-11-05 · Updated 2026-11-06
AI analysis for this CVE has not been generated yet. Raw NVD data is shown below.
NVD description
sshd in OpenSSH before 10.6p2 on Linux, when musl libc is used without PAM, lacks a workaround for a password authentication bypass (related to misinterpretation of whether a string is intended to be a password hash). For some configurations of accounts, any password between 256 and 1024 characters succeeds. An example of a platform using musl libc without PAM is Alpine Linux.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-394
Public exploit & PoC references
All references
- https://github.com/leonjza/sshhole-lab
- https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/4353fdc43ef646c43a8dda7025cc1a898caf1482
- https://github.com/predkambrij/sshhole-repro
- https://hachyderm.io/@damienmiller/117563026759098135
- https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=179388064263131&w=2
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50377976
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228
- https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.6p2
- https://alpinelinux.org/posts/2026-11-05-openssh-password-authentication-bypass/
- https://github.com/google/goonami-scanner/pull/277
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50379704
- https://sshhole.com
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