ssh-agent in OpenSSH before 8.5 has a double free that may be relevant in a few less-common scenarios, such as unconstrained agent-socket access on a legacy operating system, or the forwarding of an agent to an attacker-controlled host.
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Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:30:00 +0000

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2021-03-05T19:07:34.000Z

Updated: 2026-10-14T11:39:28.313Z

Reserved: 2021-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-28041

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-03-05T21:15:13.200

Modified: 2026-10-14T12:17:10.697

Link: CVE-2021-28041

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-03-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-28041 - Bugzilla