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CVE-2026-123158

A long enough password logs you in as root on Alpine. OpenSSH shipped a workaround and says the root cause is not its own. The cause is in musl, musl has shipped nothing, and Alpine's official cloud images arrive carrying the preconditions.

1 article — 2026-11-07
NOT IN CISA KEV — CATALOG 2026.11.06

Authoritative record

Root Notes reports on this identifier; it does not maintain it. For the vendor advisory, the affected versions and the scoring, NVD and MITRE hold the primary records.

Not listed in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as of catalog 2026.11.06. That is not evidence it is not being exploited — the catalog records what CISA has confirmed, and identifiers have been attacked for days before appearing in it.

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Alpine's own cloud images shipped both halves of the SSH bypass

2026-11-07Security

A long enough password logs you in as root on Alpine. OpenSSH shipped a workaround and says the root cause is not its own. The cause is in musl, musl has shipped nothing, and Alpine's official cloud images arrive carrying the preconditions.

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