ssh in OpenSSH before 10.1 allows the '\0' character in an ssh:// URI, potentially leading to code execution when a ProxyCommand is used.
CVE-2025-61985
Score 3.6 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2025-10-06. NVD baseline CVSS 3.6; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 3.6
- EG Score
- 3.6(medium)
- EPSS
- 2.0%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 6, 2025
Last Modified
July 14, 2026
References (4)
- cve@mitrehttps://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=175974522032149&w=2
- cve@mitrehttps://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html#10.1p1
- cve@mitrehttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/06/1
- 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-61985(14)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:5475Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPM Release
- RHSA-2026:1858Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage
- RHSA-2026:1815Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security update
- RHSA-2026:1790Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security update
- RHSA-2026:1678Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security update
- RHSA-2026:1652Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ceph Storage
- RHSA-2026:0976Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security update
- RHSA-2026:0693Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security update
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Patch Availability(15)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | ssh-askpass-gnome (1:10.0p1-5ubuntu5.1) @ questing | 2026-05-21 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | ssh-askpass-gnome (1:8.2p1-4ubuntu0.13+esm1) @ focal | 2026-05-21 | ubuntu |
| redhat | openssh-main-10.2p1-9.hum1 | 2026-03-23 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:8.7p1-30.el9_2.9 | 2026-02-03 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:8.7p1-13.el9_0.1 | 2026-02-03 | redhat |
| redhat | rhceph/rhceph-7-rhel9:1769508455 | 2026-02-03 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:9.9p1-7.el10_0.1 | 2026-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | rhceph/rhceph-8-rhel9:1769512383 | 2026-02-02 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:8.7p1-38.el9_4.6 | 2026-01-22 | redhat |
| redhat | rhui5/rhua-rhel9:1768377012 | 2026-01-15 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:8.7p1-45.el9_6.1 | 2026-01-15 | redhat |
| redhat | discovery/discovery-server-rhel9:1767888970 | 2026-01-08 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:9.9p1-12.el10_1 | 2025-12-17 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:8.0p1-27.el8_10 | 2025-12-17 | redhat |
| redhat | openssh-0:8.7p1-47.el9_7 | 2025-12-17 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(3)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
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