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SSH CVE-2025-15079

MEDIUM
Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch (CWE-297)
2026-01-08 2499f714-1537-4658-8207-48ae4bb9eae9
5.3
CVSS 3.1 · NVD
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Severity by source

NVD PRIMARY
5.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SUSE
MEDIUM
qualitative
Red Hat
8.1 LOW
qualitative

Primary rating from NVD.

CVSS VectorNVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Lifecycle Timeline

4
Analysis Generated
Mar 12, 2026 - 21:54 vuln.today
PoC Detected
Jan 20, 2026 - 14:50 vuln.today
Public exploit code
Patch released
Jan 20, 2026 - 14:50 nvd
Patch available
CVE Published
Jan 08, 2026 - 10:15 nvd
MEDIUM 5.3

DescriptionCVE.org

When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts *not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the libssh *global* known_hosts file.

AnalysisAI

When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts *not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the libssh *global* known_hosts file. [CVSS 5.3 MEDIUM]

Technical ContextAI

Affects Curl. When doing SSH-based transfers using either SCP or SFTP, and setting the known_hosts file, libcurl could still mistakenly accept connecting to hosts *not present* in the specified file if they were added as recognized in the libssh *global* known_hosts file.

RemediationAI

A vendor patch is available — apply it immediately. Restrict network access to the affected service where possible.

Vendor StatusVendor

SUSE

Severity: Medium
Product Status
Container private-registry/harbor-trivy-adapter:1.1.0-1.7 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-hub-xmlrpc-api:5.1.2.8.13.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-migration-14-16:5.1.2.8.13.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-postgresql:5.1.2.6.13.1 Container suse/multi-linux-manager/5.1/x86_64/server-saline:5.1.2.9.13.1 Image pr_15_7 Image proxy-salt-broker-image Image server-database-migration-image Image server-hub-xmlrpc-api-image Image server-migration-14-16-image Image server-postgresql-image Image server-saline-image Affected
Container suse/ltss/sle12.5/sles12sp5:8.5.174 Image SLES12-SP5-EC2-ECS-On-Demand Affected
Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-httpd:4.3.16.2.9.73.25 Container suse/manager/4.3/proxy-salt-broker:4.3.16.2.9.63.26 Container suse/sle-micro/base-5.5:2.0.4-5.8.240 Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-HPC-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP4-SAP-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-SAP-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP5-SAP-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Affected
Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-httpd:latest Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/proxy-salt-broker:latest Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server:latest Image SLES15-SP6 Image SLES15-SP6-Azure-3P Image SLES15-SP6-Azure-Basic Image SLES15-SP6-Azure-Standard Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-EC2-ECS-HVM Image SLES15-SP6-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-HPC Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-HPC-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Azure-3P Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Azure-LI-BYOS-Production Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Azure-VLI-BYOS-Production Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-BYOS Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-BYOS-Azure Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-BYOS-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-BYOS-GCE Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-EC2 Image SLES15-SP6-SAP-Hardened-GCE Affected
Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-hub-xmlrpc-api:latest Container suse/manager/5.0/x86_64/server-migration-14-16:latest Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-Aliyun Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-GDC Image SLES15-SP6-CHOST-BYOS-SAP-CCloud Affected

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