CVE-2025-26465 Openssh: machine-in-the-middle attack if verifyhostkeydns is enabled

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...

CVE-2025-26465 Openssh: machine-in-the-middle attack if verifyhostkeydns is enabled

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...

CVE-2025-26465

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...

CVE-2025-26465 Openssh: machine-in-the-middle attack if verifyhostkeydns is enabled

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...

CVE-2025-26465

The CVE-2025-26465 issue affects OpenSSH when VerifyHostKeyDNS is enabled. A remote attacker could perform a MITM impersonation by abusing error-code handling during host-key verification, with success contingent on exhausting the client’s memory resources. Affected context is OpenSSH implementat...

Critical OpenSSH Vulnerabilities Expose Users to MITM and DoS Attacks

Two critical OpenSSH vulnerabilities discovered! Qualys TRU finds client and server flaws CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466 enabling MITM and…...

USN-7270-2 openssh vulnerability

USN-7270-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSH. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the OpenSSH client incorrectly handled the non-default VerifyHostKeyDNS option. If that option were enabled, an...

USN-7270-2: OpenSSH vulnerability

USN-7270-1 fixed a vulnerability in OpenSSH. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the OpenSSH client incorrectly handled the non-default VerifyHostKeyDNS option. If that option were enabled, an...

Exploit for Detection of Error Condition Without Action in Openbsd Openssh

CVE-2025-26465 The OpenSSH client contains a logic error betw...

Security update for openssh

This update for openssh fixes the following issues: CVE-2025-26465: Fixed MitM attack against OpenSSH's VerifyHostKeyDNS-enabled client bsc1237040. CVE-2025-26466: Fixed DoS attack against OpenSSH's client and server bsc1237041. Patch Instructions: To install this SUSE update use the SUSE...

SUSE-SU-2025:0585-1 Security update for openssh

This update for openssh fixes the following issues: - CVE-2025-26465: Fixed MitM attack against OpenSSH's VerifyHostKeyDNS-enabled client bsc1237040. - CVE-2025-26466: Fixed DoS attack against OpenSSH's client and server bsc1237041...

New OpenSSH Flaws Enable Man-in-the-Middle and DoS Attacks — Patch Now

Two security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenSSH secure networking utility suite that, if successfully exploited, could result in an active machine-in-the-middle MitM and a denial-of-service DoS attack, respectively, under certain conditions. The vulnerabilities, detailed by the...

SUSE CVE-2025-26465

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...

USN-7270-1: OpenSSH vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the OpenSSH client incorrectly handled the non-default VerifyHostKeyDNS option. If that option were enabled, an attacker could possibly impersonate a server by completely bypassing the server identity check. CVE-2025-26465 It was discovered that OpenSSH incorrectly handled...

CVE-2025-26466

A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to ...

CVE-2025-26465

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...

[SECURITY] [DLA 4057-1] openssh security update

Debian LTS Advisory DLA-4057-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Colin Watson February 18, 2025 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS Package : openssh Version : 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u4 CVE ID : CVE-2025-26465 The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU discovered that the OpenSSH client i...

[SECURITY] [DSA 5868-1] openssh security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5868-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso February 18, 2025 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Qualys TRU Discovers Two Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH: CVE-2025-26465 & CVE-2025-26466

The Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU has identified two vulnerabilities in OpenSSH. The first, tracked as CVE-2025-26465, allows an active machine-in-the-middle attack on the OpenSSH client when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. The second, CVE-2025-26466, affects both the OpenSSH client and...

CVE-2025-26465: Detection of Error Condition Without Action

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. Fo...