CVE-2025-4878 (GCVE-0-2025-4878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-22 14:17
Modified
2025-07-29 19:14
Severity ?
3.6 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
Summary
A vulnerability was found in libssh, where an uninitialized variable exists under certain conditions in the privatekey_from_file() function. This flaw can be triggered if the file specified by the filename doesn't exist and may lead to possible signing failures or heap corruption.
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