High
Security advisory
sshpk is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-3737
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
sshpk is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys.
osv:CVE-2018-3737
Complete source record
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