🛡️ CVE-2025-14821 — hardened-images

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
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Description

A flaw was found in libssh. This vulnerability allows local man-in-the-middle attacks, security downgrades of SSH (Secure Shell) connections, and manipulation of trusted host information, posing a significant risk to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of SSH communications via an insecure default configuration on Windows systems where the library automatically loads configuration files from the C:\etc directory, which can be created and modified by unprivileged local users.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-14821 is classified as CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element. A writable directory appears in a search path, so a planted file can be loaded in place of the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2025-14821 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • hardened-images
  • libssh (fixed in 0.12.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 7 April 2026 and last revised on 30 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com
www.libssh.org

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-04-07
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
hardened-images
libssh 0.12.0

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