Skip to main content
← All vulnerabilities
CVE-2026-48108GHSA-76R6-X97P-67VR

Russh: SSH identification parsing accepted non-canonical client banners and did not bound pre-banner input

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.61.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. From version 0.34.0-beta.1 to before version 0.61.0, russh did not enforce the SSH identification-string rules as deliberately as OpenSSH. In particular, the server-side identification reader used the same permissive path as the client, allowing pre-banner lines from clients, and the reader did not enforce a bounded number of pre-banner lines. For a library server built on russh, this could allow a remote peer to hold connection setup resources in the cleartext pre-authentication phase with malformed identification input that should have been rejected early. This issue has been patched in version 0.61.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Eugeny russh

    From 0.34.0-beta.1 · fixed in 0.61.0

  • russhcrates.io

    From 0.34.0-beta.1 · fixed in 0.61.0

References 1

GitHub · Eugeny/russh