# CVE-2026-102825: Russh: Configured server auth-attempt cap is not enforced in the USERAUTH\_REQUEST runtime path

- Also known as: GHSA-G6XM-F9XP-QQ35
- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.62.6
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-30

## Affected

- Eugeny russh: fixed in 0.62.6
- russh (crates.io): fixed in 0.62.6

## Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.62.6, the USERAUTH_REQUEST path reached from server::run_stream in russh/src/server/encrypted.rs increments self.common.auth_attempts but never compares it with server::Config.max_auth_attempts. An unauthenticated remote client can continue submitting authentication requests on one connection beyond the configured cap, bypassing the deployment's attempt-limiting policy and increasing online guessing opportunity and backend authentication workload. This issue is fixed in version 0.62.6.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Eugeny russh, russh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.62.6) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-g6xm-f9xp-qq35
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/f8fd0b11a393364dc7f01a182482d86adafdd653
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.62.6

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