CVE-2008-4762: Freesshd

High severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 14.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in freeSSHd 1.2.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (service crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) rename and (2) realpath parameters.

Affected products

• Freesshd Freesshd: version 1.2.1 only

Published 2008-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.