CVE-2026-60000

high

Description

sshd in OpenSSH before 10.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption from excessive authentication attempts) because MaxAuthTries was mishandled for GSSAPIAuthentication.

References

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-07-08

Updated: 2026-07-09

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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