# CVE-2026-102822: russh: negotiating a MAC-requiring block cipher (CTR/CBC) with mac=none causes a slice-index-out-of-range panic

- Also known as: GHSA-P8QX-H547-FJW9
- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.63.1
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-29

## Affected

- Eugeny russh: fixed in 0.63.1
- russh (crates.io): fixed in 0.63.1

## Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.1, a connection configured to permit mac=none can negotiate it with a MAC-requiring CTR or CBC block cipher because the selection logic validates needs_mac() only when MAC selection fails. A remote peer can then send a packet with a decrypted length of zero, causing russh/src/cipher/mod.rs to shrink the previously read block before indexing buffer.buffer[16..], which panics and terminates the connection task. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Eugeny russh, russh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.63.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-p8qx-h547-fjw9
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/2885385abfee279092a41d80c6cb6ac367353159
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.63.1

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