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Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot

The Hacker News · WORLD · Security · 11/6/2026, 10:21:49 AM

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set, according to Previdian. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS score: 8.1) and codenamed SSHole (or *sshole), impacts Linux systems that run OpenSSH on the musl C library with Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) disabled,

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