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CVE-2026-42189

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

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Eugeny / russhaffected < 0.60.1

CWE

CWE-770, CWE-789

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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