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Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to version 0.60.1, a pre-authentication denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the server's keyboard-interactive authentication handler. A malicious client can crash any russh-based server that implements keyboard-interactive auth (e.g., for 2FA/TOTP) with a single malformed packet, requiring no credentials. This issue has been patched in version 0.60.1.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-25 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Product status

< 0.60.1
affected

References

github.com/.../russh/security/advisories/GHSA-f5v4-2wr6-hqmg

github.com/...ommit/6c3c80a9b6d60763d6227d60fa8310e57172a4d1

github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.60.1

cve.org (CVE-2026-42189)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-42189)

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