What is CVE-2026-60000?

CVE-2026-60000 is a low-severity vulnerability in OpenBSD OpenSSH, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2026-07-08.

How severe is CVE-2026-60000?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in OpenBSD OpenSSH

CVE-2026-60000

sshd in OpenSSH before 10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption from excessive authentication attempts) because MaxAuthTries was mishandled for GSSAPIAuthentication.

Published 2026-07-08 · last modified 2026-07-09.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-09.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.002

Affected products

OpenBSD OpenSSH — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/06/5 (Mailing List, Release Notes)
marc.info/ (Release Notes)
www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html (Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-60000?: CVE-2026-60000 is a low-severity vulnerability in OpenBSD OpenSSH, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2026-07-08.
How severe is CVE-2026-60000?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.