# oz9un/sshole

> OpenSSH vulnerability on musl systems (Alpine, OpenWrt, Buildroot, Yocto): any password longer than 256 characters works for accounts with '*' in the password field. The repo ships check.sh to test your own machine, a Docker setup to reproduce it, and the patch.

- Magnitude: 3.0 out of 10 — Cooling
- Stars: 240 total · +2 stars measured 2026-11-09, 00:03–02:11 UTC, ≈ 16 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Shell · License: MIT · Created: 2026-11-05 · Last push: 2026-11-05
- GitHub: https://github.com/oz9un/sshole · Homepage: https://sshhole.com · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/oz9un/sshole

## Useful for

- Check your Alpine server for the vulnerability with check.sh
- Reproduce the exploit in a Docker container via attack.sh or attack.py
- Apply the patch to an older OpenSSH version when upgrading is not possible

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-09 (UTC), 00:03–02:11: 238 → 240 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +16 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 4 days old and already has 240 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Hacker News: “sshole” — 2,977 points, 3 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 15
- Issues and pull requests: 5
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 51 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 5 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-11-05 … 2026-11-09: 113, 87, 25, 15, 2

## Magnitude by day, last 4 days

11-06 6.1, 11-07 6.0, 11-08 4.0, 11-09 3.0

## Hacker News

- sshole — 2977 points, 747 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50378228

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-09 02:18 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.