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CVE-2026-123158

HIGH CVSS: 8.1 Published: 2026-11-05 Modified: 2026-11-05

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-394

References