Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character Affecting openssh package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.01% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENSSH-13512803
  • published10 Oct 2025
  • disclosed6 Oct 2025
  • creditDavid Leadbeater

Introduced: 6 Oct 2025

NewCVE-2025-61985  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-158  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character via the handling of URIs in ssh://. An attacker can inject shell expressions into command-line constructor by supplying URIs containing \0 characters. This is only exploitable if URIs are sourced from untrusted input and ProxyCommand is configured to use the %u expansion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1