{
  "id": 18531172,
  "title": "Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/06/hackers-target-openssh-sshole-flaw-within-hours-of-disclosure-gain",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-06T15:21:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/11/hackers-exploited-openssh-sshole-flaw.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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,",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}