# CVE-2026-116696: russh's SSH agent server is susceptible to unbound allocations via repeated SSH\_AGENT\_CONSTRAIN\_CONFIRM messages

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-111387, GHSA-9WFM-JCJ8-JFV9
- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.65.0
- Published: 2026-10-27 · Updated: 2026-10-27

## Summary

russh, a Rust library for SSH clients and servers, is affected in its SSH agent server implementation. An attacker who can connect to the agent socket, including a remote party in a forwarded agent session, can repeatedly add keys with confirmation constraints, causing memory use to grow without bound for the life of the process.

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## Affected

- Eugeny russh: fixed in 0.65.0
- russh (crates.io): fixed in 0.65.0

## Description

russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. Prior to 0.65.0, russh::keys::agent::server::serve in russh/src/keys/agent/server.rs accepts repeated SSH_AGENT_CONSTRAIN_CONFIRM records while adding a key and appends every Constraint::Confirm record to the key's retained constraint vector without a count or memory limit. A process that can connect to the agent socket, including the remote side of a forwarded agent session, can repeatedly add constrained keys and cause renewable memory growth that persists for the process lifetime because keys without a lifetime constraint do not expire. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Eugeny russh, russh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.65.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-9wfm-jcj8-jfv9
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/23aa5d28fe9601c5bdfe9e60b7ec5d4f882c3de6
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.65.0

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