CVE-2026-81535: wolfssh wolfssh

CVSS 9.1 (critical) · published 2026-10-07

In wolfSSH through 1.5.0 built with --enable-fwd, DoChannelOpen() in src/internal.c gates only direct-tcpip channel opens with the forwarding policy callback. forwarded-tcpip opens are admitted without an authorization check and are not capped in number, allowing a malicious SSH peer to make an endpoint allocate unbounded per-channel buffers for forwarding channels the application never authorized. A client also does not check a forwarded-tcpip open against the forwards it registered with a tcpip-forward request, as RFC 4254 section 7.2 requires, so a malicious server can open forwarding channels for addresses and ports the client never asked it to forward.

Affected products (NVD): wolfssh wolfssh

Fixed in (NVD): 1.6.0

Weakness: CWE-862, CWE-863

Source: NVD CVE-2026-81535

References

• https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssh/commit/616eb681e70759c30c3ba158f2b18d7bd954def8
• https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssh/commit/79a7f299337a28aa561409688a268d0efe6e295c
• https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssh/commit/e396a0a4b6b367f10270287446a4be0071742b5c

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