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.
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-f5v4-2wr6-hqmg | russh has pre-auth DoS via unbounded allocation in its keyboard-interactive auth handler |
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Fri, 08 May 2026 23:15:00 +0000
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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. | |
| Title | Russh: Pre-auth DoS via unbounded allocation in keyboard-interactive auth | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 CWE-789 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-08T19:49:51.179Z
Reserved: 2026-04-25T01:53:21.583Z
Link: CVE-2026-42189
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-08T20:16:31.443
Modified: 2026-05-08T20:16:31.443
Link: CVE-2026-42189
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-08T23:00:15Z
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