diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/CVE-2026-35386-1.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/CVE-2026-35386-1.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4b81bf407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/CVE-2026-35386-1.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+From 96968048d6bb9a3183882b7af0630895bd4e7059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: "djm@openbsd.org" <djm@openbsd.org>
+Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 07:50:55 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] upstream: move username validity check for usernames
+ specified on
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+the commandline to earlier in main(), specifically before some contexts where
+a username with shell characters might be expanded by a %u directive in
+ssh_config.
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+We continue to recommend against using untrusted input on
+the SSH commandline. Mitigations like this are not 100%
+guarantees of safety because we can't control every
+combination of user shell and configuration where they are
+used.
+
+Reported by Florian Kohnhäuser
+
+OpenBSD-Commit-ID: 25ef72223f5ccf1c38d307ae77c23c03f59acc55
+
+Backport notes: The upstream commit uses renamed functions
+(ssh_valid_hostname, ssh_valid_ruser) that don't exist in 9.6p1.
+Adapted to use the existing function names (valid_hostname, valid_ruser).
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-35386
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/76685c9b09a66435cd2ad8373246adf1c53976d3]
+
+Signed-off-by: Adarsh Jagadish Kamini <adarsh.jagadish.kamini@est.tech>
+---
+ ssh.c | 10 +++++++---
+ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/ssh.c b/ssh.c
+index 9c49f98a8..951da74fa 100644
+--- a/ssh.c
++++ b/ssh.c
+@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
+-/* $OpenBSD: ssh.c,v 1.599 2023/12/18 14:47:44 djm Exp $ */
++/* $OpenBSD: ssh.c,v 1.630 2026/04/02 07:50:55 djm Exp $ */
+ /*
+  * Author: Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>
+  * Copyright (c) 1995 Tatu Ylonen <ylo@cs.hut.fi>, Espoo, Finland
+@@ -1160,10 +1160,14 @@ main(int ac, char **av)
+ 	if (!host)
+ 		usage();
+ 
+-	if (!valid_hostname(host))
+-		fatal("hostname contains invalid characters");
++	/*
++	 * Validate commandline-specified values that end up in %tokens
++	 * before they are used in config parsing.
++	 */
+ 	if (options.user != NULL && !valid_ruser(options.user))
+ 		fatal("remote username contains invalid characters");
++	if (!valid_hostname(host))
++		fatal("hostname contains invalid characters");
+ 	options.host_arg = xstrdup(host);
+ 
+ 	/* Initialize the command to execute on remote host. */
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
index 1cdd888ccb..98176a971b 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh_9.6p1.bb
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/OpenSSH/portable/openssh-${PV}.tar
            file://CVE-2025-32728.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-61985.patch \
            file://CVE-2025-61984.patch \
+		   file://CVE-2026-35386-1.patch \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "910211c07255a8c5ad654391b40ee59800710dd8119dd5362de09385aa7a777c"