Buffer overflow in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2025-4877

There's a vulnerability in the libssh package where when a libssh consumer passes in an unexpectedly large input buffer to ssh_get_fingerprint_hash() function. In such cases the bin_to_base64() function can experience an integer overflow leading to a memory under allocation, when that happens it's possible that the program perform out of bounds write leading to a heap corruption. This issue affects only 32-bits builds of libssh.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.002 (9.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-4877?
CVE-2025-4877 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 4.5/10. Published 2025-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2025-4877?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-4877 known to be exploited?
2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.