CVE-2026-123158: *sshole Bypass in musl-based Linux SSH
A critical password bypass vulnerability, *sshole (CVE-2026-123158), affects musl-based Linux distributions, allowing unauthorized SSH access.
- Immediate impact: Unauthorized SSH access to musl-based Linux systems, potentially leading to server takeover.
- Affected systems: Linux distributions using musl libc, especially Alpine cloud images with passwordless users and non-PAM OpenSSH.
- Remediation: Disable PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config or update OpenSSH to 10.6p2 and restart sshd immediately.