CVE-2025-26466 PoC — Openssh: denial-of-service in openssh

Source

https://github.com/rxerium/CVE-2025-26466

Associated Vulnerability

Title: Openssh: denial-of-service in openssh (CVE-2025-26466)
Description:A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to an uncontrolled increase in memory consumption on the server side. Consequently, the server may become unavailable, resulting in a denial of service attack.

Description

 The OpenSSH client and server are vulnerable to a pre-authentication DoS attack between versions 9.5p1 to 9.9p1 (inclusive) that causes memory and CPU consumption

Readme

# CVE-2025-26466

## How does this detection method work?

This template matches on the following vulnerable versions:
```
          - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.5p1"
          - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.6p1"
          - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.7p1"
          - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.8p1"
          - "SSH-2.0-OpenSSH_9.9p1"
```
If there is a match, the host is considered to be vulnerable to CVE-2025-26466.

 ## How do I run this script?

1. Download Nuclei from [here](https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei)
2. Copy the template to your local system
3. Run the following command: `nuclei -u https://yourHost.com -t template.yaml` 

## References

- https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/new-openssh-flaws-enable-man-in-middle.html


## Disclaimer

Use at your own risk, I will not be responsible for illegal activities you conduct on infrastructure you do not own or have permission to scan.

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