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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-0967 (MEDIUM 5.5) — A flaw was found in libssh. A remote attacker, by controlling client configuration files or known_hosts files, could craft specific hostnames that when processed by the `match_pattern()` function can lead to inefficient regular expression backtracking. This can cause timeouts and

[NVD] CVE-2026-0967 (MEDIUM 5.5) — A flaw was found in libssh. A remote attacker, by controlling client configuration files or known_hosts files, could craft specific hostnames that when processed by the `match_pattern()` function can lead to inefficient regular expression backtracking. This can cause timeouts and

lownvdPublished 2026-03-26

CVE-2026-0967 CVSS: 5.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-03-26T21:17:00.970

A flaw was found in libssh. A remote attacker, by controlling client configuration files or known_hosts files, could craft specific hostnames that when processed by the `match_pattern()` function can lead to inefficient regular expression backtracking. This can cause timeouts and resource exhaustion, resulting in a Denial of Servic

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0967