CVE-2026-42508 is an authentication and trust-validation bypass in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts. Revocation handling did not correctly evaluate the revoked status of a certificate authority SignatureKey associated with an SSH certificate. Consequently, a certificate could pass known-hosts validation even when its CA SignatureKey had been marked revoked. The corrected implementation checks both the presented key and its SignatureKey against revoked entries.
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A vulnerability addressed by the openSUSE glab package update; no technical details are provided.
A vulnerability referenced in a Nutanix AOS security notice/plugin, but no specific technical details are provided in the content.
One of multiple vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh.
A vulnerability in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/knownhosts that allows revocation bypass via an unchecked SignatureKey.
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