libnbd — security advisory
A flaw was found in libnbd. A malicious actor could exploit this by convincing libnbd to open a specially crafted Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). This vulnerability arises because non-standard hostnames starting with '-o' are incorrectly interpreted as arguments to the Secure Shell (SSH) process, rather than as hostnames. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running libnbd.
- Products
- libnbd
- Affected versions
- 1.22.2-1, 1.22.3-1, 1.22.5-1, 1.24.0-1, 1.24.0-2, 1.24.0-2.1, 1.24.1-1, 1.24.2-1, 1.24.2-2, 1.24.3-1
- Fixed versions
- 1.22.5-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-14946
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 28 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A flaw was found in libnbd. A malicious actor could exploit this by convincing libnbd to open a specially crafted Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). This vulnerability arises because non-standard hostnames starting with '-o' are incorrectly interpreted as arguments to the Secure Shell (SSH) process, rather than as hostnames. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running libnbd.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2025-14946
libnbd
Fixed versions: Not specified
libnbd
Fixed versions: 1.22.5-1
Complete source record
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