diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index cda33ffae9..5c0c9df123 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -100,3 +100,4 @@ zhanghu on xiaomi <zhanghu6@xiaomi.com>
 Philip Heiduck <pheiduck@Philips-MBP.lan> <47042125+pheiduck@users.noreply.github.com>
 bsergean on github <bsergean@gmail.com>
 Stefan Eissing <stefan@eissing.org> <stefan.eissing@greenbytes.de>
+Michael Musset <mickamusset@gmail.com>
diff --git a/lib/vssh/libssh2.c b/lib/vssh/libssh2.c
index d23926dbc0..ce9229f8fa 100644
--- a/lib/vssh/libssh2.c
+++ b/lib/vssh/libssh2.c
@@ -791,10 +791,14 @@ static CURLcode ssh_check_fingerprint(struct Curl_easy *data)
         Curl_set_in_callback(data, false);
         if(rc!= CURLKHMATCH_OK) {
           state(data, SSH_SESSION_FREE);
+          sshc->actualcode = CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION;
+          return sshc->actualcode;
         }
       }
       else {
         state(data, SSH_SESSION_FREE);
+        sshc->actualcode = CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION;
+        return sshc->actualcode;
       }
       return CURLE_OK;
     }