CVE-2019-3863

critical
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
9.5

Description

A flaw was found in libssh2 before 1.8.1 creating a vulnerability on the SSH client side. A server could send a multiple keyboard interactive response messages whose total length are greater than unsigned char max characters. This value is used by the SSH client as an index to copy memory causing in an out of bounds memory write error.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3863

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3863.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201903-12

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed1.8.1-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed1.8.0-2.1
debian debianbullseyefixed1.8.0-2.1
debian debianforkyfixed1.8.0-2.1
debian debiansidfixed1.8.0-2.1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.8.0-2.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.