CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-46702

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.27%

19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs

Summary

The Russh Rust SSH library versions 0.34.0 through 0.61.1 have a vulnerability related to SSH compression. When compression is enabled, a remote peer can send a compressed packet that decompresses to a much larger size than allowed, leading to resource exhaustion.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely cause a denial of service (DoS) by exhausting system resources, especially in older versions before 0.58.0 where the use of CryptoVec worsens the impact.

Recommendation

Immediately update the Russh library to version 0.61.1 or later, which contains the fix.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. From version 0.34.0 to before version 0.61.1, when SSH compression is enabled, russh accepted compressed packets whose on-wire size passed the normal transport packet-length checks but whose decompressed size was much larger. This allowed a remote peer to send oversized post-decompression packets that should have been rejected. In current releases, this is a remote denial-of-service / resource-exhaustion issue in the post-decompression receive path. In older releases before 0.58.0, the same remote decompression path used CryptoVec, which appears to make the historical impact worse. This issue has been patched in version 0.61.1.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS