CVE-2026-60000 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 08.07.2026 Published: 08.07.2026 Updated: 08.07.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 3.7

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	High	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	Low

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	OpenBSD
Product	OpenSSH
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 10.4 (excl.)

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/07/06/5
https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=178333966933090&w=2
https://www.openssh.org/releasenotes.html#10.4p1

Problem Types

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE