CVE-2026-39830

critical

Published 2026-05-22 · Modified 2026-05-27

CVSS v3

9.1

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2

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VIR risk

9.1

Description

A malicious SSH peer could send unsolicited global request responses to fill an internal buffer, blocking the connection's read loop. The blocked goroutine could not be released by calling Close(), resulting in a resource leak per connection. Unsolicited global responses are now discarded.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

94%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-39830.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-39830

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	bullseye	affected
debian	forky	affected
debian	sid	fixed	`1:0.52.0-1`
debian	trixie	affected
sles		affected

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	golang.org/x/crypto	`<0.52.0`	`0.52.0`

References

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