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HIGHCVE-2026-42189Published Modified CNA GitHub_M

CVE-2026-42189: Russh: Pre-auth DoS via unbounded allocation in keyboard-interactive auth

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.

Metrics

CVSS v3.1
7.5
Severity
HIGH
Fixed in
Affected Products
1
Affected packages
  • Eugeny / russh
    < 0.60.1
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVE-2026-42189: Russh: Pre-auth DoS via unbounded allocation in keyboard-interactive auth | HarborGuard CVE