golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/agent vulnerable to panic if message is malformed due to out of bounds read
Date: 2025-11
Affected: go/golang.org/x/crypto
Attack vector: other
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: Medium
CVE: CVE-2025-47914
CWE: CWE-125
CVSS: 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

SSH Agent servers do not validate the size of messages when processing new identity requests, which may cause the program to panic if the message is malformed due to an out of bounds read.


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