CVSS VectorNVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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4DescriptionNVD
SSH servers which use CertChecker as a public key callback without setting IsUserAuthority or IsHostAuthority could be caused to panic by a client presenting a certificate. CertChecker now returns an error instead of panicking when these callbacks are nil.
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Unauthenticated remote clients can crash SSH servers built with golang.org/x/crypto/ssh by presenting a certificate during the handshake when CertChecker is used as a public key callback without initializing IsUserAuthority or IsHostAuthority. All versions prior to 0.52.0 are affected; the nil function pointer dereference causes a Go runtime panic that terminates the SSH service. …
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EUVD-2026-31393