CVE-2026-123158 - OpenSSH Authentication Bypass Vulnerability
Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2026 9:18 pm
CVE ID :CVE-2026-123158
Published : Nov. 5, 2026
Description :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 Linux.
Severity: 8.1 | HIGH
More Information:
https://cvefeed.io/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-123158
Published : Nov. 5, 2026
Description :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 Linux.
Severity: 8.1 | HIGH
More Information:
https://cvefeed.io/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-123158