CVE-2025-11625 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Improper host authentication vulnerability in wolfSSH version 1.4.20 and earlier clients that allows authentication bypass and leaking of clients credentials.

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Attack Requirements None

User Interaction Passive

Vulnerable System Confidentiality Impact High

Vulnerable System Integrity Impact High

Vulnerable System Availability Impact High

Subsequent System Confidentiality Impact High

Subsequent System Integrity Impact High

Subsequent System Availability Impact High

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

Applying this patch ( https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/wolfSSL/wolfssh/pull/840.diff ) to versions 1.4.20 and older or updating version of wolfSSH used.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssh/pull/840

History

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		Improper host authentication vulnerability in wolfSSH version 1.4.20 and earlier clients that allows authentication bypass and leaking of clients credentials.
Title		Host verification bypass and credential leak
Weaknesses		CWE-287
References		https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssh/pull/840
Metrics		cvssV4_0 `{'score': 9.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/AU:Y/U:Red'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: wolfSSL

Published: 2025-10-21T13:25:18.120Z

Updated: 2025-10-21T14:04:15.921Z

Reserved: 2025-10-10T21:06:46.601Z

Link: CVE-2025-11625

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-10-21T14:04:10.794Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-10-21T14:15:46.997

Modified: 2025-10-21T14:15:46.997

Link: CVE-2025-11625

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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