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CVE-2026-73430GHSA-5XVQ-CP9X-6P6R

Russh: Pre-auth remote panic via all-zero Curve25519 peer public value (encode_mpint OOB)

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.62.4
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to 0.62.4, an unauthenticated SSH client can cause a denial of service by sending SSH_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT with a 32-byte all-zero Q_C value. Curve25519Kex::server_dh in russh/src/kex/curve25519.rs accepts the all-zero peer public value and computes an all-zero shared secret, after which compute_exchange_hash calls encode_mpint in russh/src/kex/mod.rs and indexes beyond the end of the input while skipping leading zero bytes. The resulting panic occurs before authentication and terminates the server key-exchange task. This issue is fixed in version 0.62.4.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Eugeny russh

    fixed in 0.62.4

  • russhcrates.io

    fixed in 0.62.4

References 3

GitHub · Eugeny/russh