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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2026-43798

A single crafted SSH message gives an unauthenticated network attacker an out-of-bounds stack write of attacker-controlled length and content against any application built on swift-nio-ssh. This vulnerability is addressed in swift-nio-ssh version 0.14.1.

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1 Nov 2026, 03:38 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2026-43798

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Aug 2026, 21:17 UTC

A single crafted SSH message gives an unauthenticated network attacker an out-of-bounds stack write of attacker-controlled length and content against any application built on swift-nio-ssh. This vulnerability is addressed in swift-nio-ssh version 0.14.1.

osv:CVE-2026-43798
Complete source record
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