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CVE record · CVE-2025-26465

Openssh: machine-in-the-middle attack if verifyhostkeydns is enabled

CVSS 6.8 MediumEPSS 0.077 · 94th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 18 Feb 2025, 18:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Not given Not given Package name: OpenSSH https://www.openssh.com/
  • affected 6.8p1 to 9.9p1, inclusive custom
Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:8.0p1-26.el8_10 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:8.0p1-26.el8_10 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:8.7p1-45.el9 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:8.7p1-45.el9 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
  • unaffected 0:8.7p1-38.el9_4.5 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Discovery 1.14 Package name: discovery/discovery-server-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/
  • unaffected 1.14.3-1748529279 to before * rpm
Other versions: affected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Package name: openssh https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: unknown
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Package name: openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/ No versions given Other versions: affected
Identifiers
CVE-2025-26465
CNA
redhat
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-390
Tags
Published
18 Feb 2025
Updated
5 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.8 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CNA (redhat)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.077, the 94th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 18 Feb 2025, 18:27 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
  2. 18 Feb 2025, 19:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

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