# ELSA-2025-23480: Security update for 6 packages

ELSA-2025-23480, released December 18, 2025, fixes 2 CVEs across 6 products. None of them is reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

- Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/fix/linux/elsa-2025-23480
- Platform: Linux
- Released: Dec 18, 2025
- Priority: Routine (Closes 2 CVEs, none high severity)
- CVEs: 2, exploited: 0, on CISA KEV: 0
- Vendor advisory: https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2025-23480.html

## Applies to

| Product | Release | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| [openssh](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh.md) | ol 9 | 0:8.7p1-47.0.1.el9_7 |
| [openssh-askpass](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-askpass.md) | ol 9 | 0:8.7p1-47.0.1.el9_7 |
| [openssh-clients](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-clients.md) | ol 9 | 0:8.7p1-47.0.1.el9_7 |
| [openssh-keycat](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-keycat.md) | ol 9 | 0:8.7p1-47.0.1.el9_7 |
| [openssh-server](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/openssh-server.md) | ol 9 | 0:8.7p1-47.0.1.el9_7 |
| [pam_ssh_agent_auth](https://patchblox.com/security/data/product/linux/pam-ssh-agent-auth.md) | ol 9 | 0:0.10.4-5.47.0.1.el9_7 |

## CVEs this fix closes

| CVE | Priority | Title | CVSS | EPSS | Exploitation |
|---|---|---|---:|---:|---|
| [CVE-2025-61984](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-61984.md) | Routine | ssh in OpenSSH before 10.1 allows control characters in usernames that originate from certain possibly untrusted sources, potentially leading to code execution when a ProxyCommand is used. The untrusted sources are the command line and %-sequence expansion of a configuration file. (A configuration file that provides a complete literal username is not categorized as an untrusted source.) | 5.3 | 0.0046 |  |
| [CVE-2025-61985](https://patchblox.com/security/data/cve/CVE-2025-61985.md) | Routine | ssh in OpenSSH before 10.1 allows the '\0' character in an ssh:// URI, potentially leading to code execution when a ProxyCommand is used. | 5.3 | 0.0013 |  |

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