# CVE-2026-102821: Russh: Unbounded memory exhaustion via CHANNEL\_OPEN flood during a client-stalled rekey

- Also known as: GHSA-35G8-35P8-C8FW
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.63.2
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-30

## Affected

- Eugeny russh: fixed in 0.63.2
- russh (crates.io): fixed in 0.63.2

## Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.2, an authenticated remote peer can send SSH_MSG_KEXINIT without the required SSH_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT and then flood SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN messages while SessionKexState::InProgress prevents priority_receiver in russh/src/server/session.rs from being drained. The server continues processing network input and enqueues a ChannelOpenReply for each request on an unbounded channel, allowing one connection to grow memory until the process is terminated. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Eugeny russh, russh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.63.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-35g8-35p8-c8fw
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/a282af361ac99bc76b80876d1aae128e89dbf66b
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.63.2

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