RHSA-2026:69266 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 21, 2026

Updated · November 2, 2026

Topic

An update for openssh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

OpenSSH is an SSH protocol implementation supported by a number of Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. It includes the core files necessary for both the OpenSSH client and server.

Security Fix(es):

openssh: OpenSSH: sftp client allows attacker to control downloaded file location (CVE-2026-59995)
openssh: OpenSSH sshd: Security bypass due to incorrect handling of forwarding and tunneling options (CVE-2026-59999)
openssh: OpenSSH: Information disclosure and data corruption via use-after-free in ssh client (CVE-2026-73282)

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

Incomplete backport of CVE-2023-38408 in RHEL 8 openssh (JIRA:RHEL-234763)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.