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CVE-2026-3497

CVE-2026-3497 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence

Vulnerability in the OpenSSH GSSAPI delta included in various Linux distributions. This vulnerability affects the GSSAPI patches added by various Linux distributions and does not affect the OpenSSH upstream project itself. The usage of sshpkt_disconnect() on an error, which does not terminate the process, allows an attacker to send an unexpected GSSAPI message type during the GSSAPI key exchange to the server, which will call the underlying function and continue the execution of the program without setting the related connection variables. As the variables are not initialized to NULL the code later accesses those uninitialized variables, accessing random memory, which could lead to undefined behavior. The recommended workaround is to use ssh_packet_disconnect() instead, which does terminate the process. The impact of the vulnerability depends heavily on the compiler flag hardening…

Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, canonical

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.

Exploitation

Unreported

no source claims exploitation

EPSS

2%

chance of exploitation in 30 days

Affects

ubuntu

37 products listed

CVSS base

8.2

HIGH

CISA SSVC assessment

Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.

CISA

Exploitation

None

none · proof-of-concept · active

Automatable

Yes

can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps

Technical impact

Partial

partial · total control of the vulnerable component

Affected scope

The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.

Products (37)

opensshred hat enterprise linux 10red hat enterprise linux 10 0 extended update supportred hat enterprise linux 8red hat enterprise linux 8 4 advanced mission critical update supportred hat enterprise linux 8 4 extended update support long life add onred hat enterprise linux 8 6 advanced mission critical update supportred hat enterprise linux 8 6 telecommunications update servicered hat enterprise linux 8 6 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 8 8 telecommunications update servicered hat enterprise linux 8 8 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9red hat enterprise linux 9 0 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9 2 update services for sap solutionsred hat enterprise linux 9 4 extended update supportred hat enterprise linux 9 6 extended update supportred hat openshift container platform 4 12red hat openshift container platform 4 13red hat openshift container platform 4 14red hat openshift container platform 4 15red hat openshift container platform 4 16red hat openshift container platform 4 17red hat openshift container platform 4 18red hat openshift container platform 4 19rhel 8 based middleware containersred hat ai inference server 3 2red hat ai inference server 3 3red hat hardened imagesred hat update infrastructure 5multicluster engine for kubernetesopenshift pipelinesred hat advanced cluster management for kubernetes 2red hat enterprise linux 6red hat enterprise linux 7simatic s7 1500 cpu 1518 4 pn dp mfpsimatic s7 1500 cpu 1518f 4 pn dp mfpsiplus s7 1500 cpu 1518 4 pn dp mfp

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

ScoreVersionSeverityExpl.ImpactSource
8.2CVSS 3.1HIGH——cvelistV5

Weakness & attack patterns

  • CWE-908
  • CWE-824

References

25 on the record

Elsewhere on this site

  • ubuntuevery CVE for this vendor
  • redhatevery CVE for this vendor
  • siemensevery CVE for this vendor
  • CWE-908other pages naming this weakness

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

  • No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
  • No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
  • No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.