# CVE-2026-66032: libssh2 Double-Free Heap Corruption via sftp\_open()

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fix: a fix or patch is referenced
- Published: 2026-07-24 · Updated: 2026-07-28

## Affected

- libssh2: through 1.11.1

## Description

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.

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## References

- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2180
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/5e4776146552d898b9c0e1b313cd093fa8dc92d0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-double-free-heap-corruption-via-sftp-open

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