Vulnerability in OpenSSH
Classification: Severe, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: 8.1, CVEs: CVE-2026-123158, Summary: sshd in OpenSSH before 10.6p2 on Linux, when musl libc is used without PAM, lacks a workaround for a password authentication bypass (related to misinterpretation of whether a string is intended to be a password hash). For some configurations of accounts, any password between 256 and 1024 characters succeeds. An example of a platform using musl libc without PAM is Alpine…
CVSS 8.1 CVE-2026-123158 OpenSSH Alpine Linux FI