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CVE-2018-10933

90
FAUCET Score

CVE-2018-10933 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in libssh's server-side state machine, affecting versions prior to 0.7.6 and 0.8.4, including products from Canonical, Debian, Oracle, and Red Hat. With a CVSS score of 9.1, it allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create channels and gain unauthorized access with low attack complexity and no user interaction. While not on the KEV catalog, public exploit code is available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating a high likelihood of exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.6.0, < 0.7.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libssh:libssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
91.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: libssh Authentication Bypass Scanner · Oct 16, 2018
ExploitDB: EDB-46307 · Oct 20, 2018
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9179 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: cockpit-0:176-4.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ExtrasFixed in: libssh-0:0.7.1-7.el7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2018-10933Important

libssh: Authentication Bypass due to improper message callbacks implementation

Oct 16, 2018

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/10/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
psirt.global.sonicwall.com / vuln-detail/SNWLID-2018-0016
Third Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20190118-0002
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3795-1
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3795-2
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4322
Third Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/45638
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
libssh.org / security/advisories/CVE-2018-10933.txt
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/105677
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry