CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-48108

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.28%

20th percentile - higher than 20% of all known CVEs

Summary

Russh before version 0.61.0 does not strictly enforce SSH identification-string rules. The server-side identification reader uses a permissive path, allowing pre-banner lines from clients and not bounding their number. A remote attacker can hold connection setup resources in the cleartext pre-authentication phase with malformed identification input.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can exhaust server resources, leading to denial of service (DoS) for other clients.

Recommendation

Update Russh to version 0.61.0 or later, which includes a fix enforcing SSH identification rules.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

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