diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/CVE-2026-59999.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/CVE-2026-59999.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89b7aa9c7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/CVE-2026-59999.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+From 1c719fa7d0fb0aa335f0e8d5db5d5e5d01c894e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "djm@openbsd.org" <djm@openbsd.org>
+Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 04:47:29 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] upstream: DisableForwarding=yes didn't override
+ PermitTunnel=yes
+
+Reported independently by Huzaifa Sidhpurwala of Redhat and Marko
+Jevtic; ok markus@
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-59999
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/8dfe7ed6e2fd988de08df508355a196b956b2753]
+
+Backport Changes:
+- Retained the Scarthgap serverloop.c OpenBSD revision identifier because
+  the 10.4 identifier does not describe the older source baseline.
+
+OpenBSD-Commit-ID: b5c13f0746cf079b21f8deba47407fad49ccbf4c
+(cherry picked from commit 8dfe7ed6e2fd988de08df508355a196b956b2753)
+Signed-off-by: Devansh Patel <devanshp@cisco.com>
+---
+ serverloop.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/serverloop.c b/serverloop.c
+index f3683c2e4..c1fe99d12 100644
+--- a/serverloop.c
++++ b/serverloop.c
+@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ server_request_tun(struct ssh *ssh)
+ 		ssh_packet_send_debug(ssh, "Unsupported tunnel device mode.");
+ 		return NULL;
+ 	}
+-	if ((options.permit_tun & mode) == 0) {
++	if ((options.permit_tun & mode) == 0 || options.disable_forwarding) {
+ 		ssh_packet_send_debug(ssh, "Server has rejected tunnel device "
+ 		    "forwarding");
+ 		return NULL;
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
index 4ab3174924..b6eda3607a 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-${PV}.tar
            file://CVE-2026-35385.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-35414-CVE-2026-35387.patch \
            file://CVE-2026-35388.patch \
+           file://CVE-2026-59999.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "910211c07255a8c5ad654391b40ee59800710dd8119dd5362de09385aa7a777c"