# CVE-2026-48108: Russh: SSH identification parsing accepted non-canonical client banners and did not bound pre-banner input

- Also known as: GHSA-76R6-X97P-67VR
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.61.0
- Published: 2026-06-10 · Updated: 2026-06-11

## Affected

- Eugeny russh: from 0.34.0-beta.1, fixed in 0.61.0
- russh (crates.io): from 0.34.0-beta.1, fixed in 0.61.0

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Eugeny russh, russh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.61.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-76r6-x97p-67vr

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