CVE-2026-60000 in OpenSSH

Summary

by MITRE • 07/08/2026

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.

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• Responsible: MITRE
• Reservation: 07/08/2026
• Disclosure: 07/08/2026
• Moderation: accepted
• Entry: VDB-376755
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-400 (confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.3 (VulDB)
• EPSS: 0.00000
• KEV: no
• Activities: very low
• Sector: Government, Insurance, ...

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-60000
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-60000
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2026-60000/