libfuse Sshfs up to 3.7.5 Mount Source Processing find_base_path injection

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in libfuse Sshfs up to 3.7.5. Impacted is the function find_base_path of the component Mount Source Processing. Such manipulation leads to injection. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-48711. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in libfuse Sshfs up to 3.7.5 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function find_base_path of the component Mount Source Processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-74. The product constructs all or part of a command, data structure, or record using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify how it is parsed or interpreted when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SSHFS is a network filesystem client for connecting to SSH servers. From version 1.4 until 3.7.6, SSHFS accepts a bracketed mount source such as [-oProxyCommand=CMD]:/path and find_base_path() removes the brackets, leaving a host value that begins with - and is passed directly to ssh as a command-line argument. When a caller also supplies a path-valued sftp_server, ssh treats the normalized host as an option and the server path as its destination, causing an injected ProxyCommand to execute locally before any connection or authentication succeeds. The attack requires a caller or wrapper that passes an attacker-controlled mount source to SSHFS with the required sftp_server configuration and results in arbitrary command execution as the user running SSHFS. This issue is fixed in version 3.7.6.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-48711 since 05/22/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1055 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.7.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• libfuse

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• Sshfs

Version

• 3.7.0
• 3.7.1
• 3.7.2
• 3.7.3
• 3.7.4
• 3.7.5

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• Product: https://github.com/libfuse/sshfs/

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