CVE-2025-22869

Publication date 26 February 2025

Last updated 9 July 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

SSH servers which implement file transfer protocols are vulnerable to a denial of service attack from clients which complete the key exchange slowly, or not at all, causing pending content to be read into memory, but never transmitted.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
golang-go.crypto 26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Fixed 1:0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 1:0.19.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 1:0.0~git20211202.5770296-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1:0.0~git20170629.0.5ef0053-2ubuntu0.1~esm3
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
lxd 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
snapd 26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

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Notes

jdstrand

snapd contains an embedded copy of golang-go.crypto lxd in 18.04 LTS and earlier contains an embedded copy of golang-go.crypto

hlibk

snapd and lxd only use the terminal sub-package, not the ssh part of golang-go.crypto, so they are not vulnerable

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-8519-1
    • Go Cryptography vulnerabilities
    • 9 July 2026

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