mscdex/ssh2

SSH2 client and server modules written in pure JavaScript for node.js

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Indexed issues: 61

Dominant language: JavaScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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8 beginner-friendly issues open

x11 screen number silently ignored: opts.x11 compared against the string 'number' in exec() and shell() Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

mscdex/ssh2#1516 · Opened Aug 27, 2026
generateKeyPairSync('ed25519') + parseKey() Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 82/100

mscdex/ssh2#1514 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
generateKeyPairSync('ed25519') + parseKey() fails ~0.4% of the time with "Malformed OpenSSH public key" (over-stripping leading zero bytes in keygen.js) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

mscdex/ssh2#1513 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
[Security] Receive window check rejects only exactly-zero credit — negative window enables unbounded buffering (CWE-400) Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

mscdex/ssh2#1505 · Opened Jul 24, 2026
max_packet_size=0 channel-send infinite loop (post-auth DoS) — RFC 4254 §5.1 cluster Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100

mscdex/ssh2#1504 · Opened Jul 20, 2026
sftp.readdir (and other high-level SFTP methods) silently drop callback on connection loss Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

mscdex/ssh2#1490 · Opened Apr 4, 2026
sftp.read callback receives wrong position value when request exceeds _maxReadLen Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

mscdex/ssh2#1488 · Opened Apr 3, 2026
SFTP debug message reverses "Buffered" and "Sending" Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 68/100

mscdex/ssh2#1152 · Opened Mar 22, 2022

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