CVE-2026-59996

MEDIUMNVD 5.45.4—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

This medium-severity CVE scores 5.4 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.5% (43rd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). GitHub Security Advisory enrichment pending alignment with NVD CVSS.

Triggered by: NVD CVSS baseline
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
5.4EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 5.4Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

scp in OpenSSH before 10.4 may place a file in the parent directory of an intended directory when the copy occurs between two remote destinations.

CVSS v3
5.4
EG Score
5.4MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
25
EG Risk 25/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity54% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
15th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

July 8, 2026

Last Modified

July 9, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jul 8, 2026
Patch available.
generic

oss-security - Announce: OpenSSH 10.4 released

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/06/5
generic

OpenSSH: Release Notes

https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.4p1
generic

'Announce: OpenSSH 10.4 released' - MARC

https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=178333966933090&w=2

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-59996(9)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntussh-askpass-gnome (1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13.18) @ noble2026-10-01ubuntu
redhatrhui5/rhua-tp-rhel9:17872412602026-08-24redhat
redhatrhui5/rhua-rhel9:17865335292026-08-12redhat
redhatopenssh-0:9.9p1-25.el10_22026-07-30redhat
redhatopenssh-0:9.9p1-9.el9_82026-07-29redhat
redhatopenssh-main-10.4p1-1.hum12026-07-09redhat

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.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Alpine:v3.24(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh—
  • every version up to 10.3_p1-r1: fixed in 10.3_p1-r1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-1 ... 1:9.9p2-2 (86 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-1 ... 1:9.9p2-2 (77 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-7 ... 1:10.5p1-1 (31 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
openssh1:10.0p1-7 ... 1:10.3p1-9 (21 versions)
  • every version up to 1:10.4p1-1: fixed in 1:10.4p1-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

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.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 7× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 226 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescore
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  9. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-10-01 16:24 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-01 16:24 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-01 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-29 15:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-09-28 13:34 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-28 13:34 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-28 13:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-09-23 06:15 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-23 06:15 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-23 06:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-18 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-18 05:48 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-18 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescore
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  11. 2026-09-14 11:18 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-14 11:18 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-14 11:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-13 08:28 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-13 08:28 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-09-13 08:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-12 03:40 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-12 03:40 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-12 03:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
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  24. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  26. 2026-09-05 22:52 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-09-05 22:52 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-09-05 22:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-09-04 05:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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  33. 2026-08-30 19:17 UTCEPSS rescore
  34. 2026-08-30 07:40 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-08-30 07:40 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-08-30 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  38. 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescore
  39. 2026-08-28 03:38 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-08-28 03:38 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-08-28 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  43. 2026-08-27 01:51 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-27 01:51 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-08-27 01:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  47. 2026-08-25 14:50 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-08-25 14:50 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-08-25 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-08-24 13:08 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-08-24 13:08 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-08-24 13:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-08-23 11:28 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-08-23 11:28 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-08-23 11:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
  58. 2026-08-22 09:48 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-08-22 09:48 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-08-22 09:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  62. 2026-08-21 08:07 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-08-21 08:07 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-08-21 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  66. 2026-08-20 06:25 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-08-20 06:25 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-08-20 06:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  70. 2026-08-19 04:43 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-08-19 04:43 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-08-19 04:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  74. 2026-08-18 03:01 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-08-18 03:01 UTCVendor advisory

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-59996?
CVE-2026-59996 is a medium vulnerability published on July 8, 2026. scp in OpenSSH before 10.4 may place a file in the parent directory of an intended directory when the copy occurs between two remote destinations.
When was CVE-2026-59996 disclosed?
CVE-2026-59996 was first published on July 8, 2026, with the most recent update on July 9, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-59996 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-59996 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (15th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-59996?
CVE-2026-59996 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.4 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-59996?
A fix for CVE-2026-59996 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-59996 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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