# CVE-2026-73430: Russh: Pre-auth remote panic via all-zero Curve25519 peer public value (encode\_mpint OOB)

- Also known as: GHSA-5XVQ-CP9X-6P6R
- 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=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.62.4
- Published: 2026-08-12 · Updated: 2026-08-13

## Affected

- Eugeny russh: fixed in 0.62.4
- russh (crates.io): fixed in 0.62.4

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Eugeny russh, russh, upgrade to a fixed version (0.62.4) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-5xvq-cp9x-6p6r
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/a7fc1eb5717264e31c3c5f7dd849b73989a08f3d
- https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.62.4

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