Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by The Hacker News at 06 Nov, 15:21 UTC

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…