CVE-2026-42189 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.04.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 08.05.2026

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

Product Status

Vendor Eugeny
Product russh
Versions
  • Version < 0.60.1 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE
  • CWE-789: Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE