Medium severity · published Oct 27, 2026
CVE-2026-116773
russh's SSH client is susceptible to unbounded allocations via EXT_INFO packets
New
4.3
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. Prior to 0.65.0, the client Session::process_packet path in russh/src/client/encrypted.rs accepts repeated packets encoded with russh's private msg::EXT_INFO = 7 before authentication, while the standards-compliant EXT_INFO message number 82 does not reach the affected handler. The handle_ext_info function appends every parsed extension name to received_extensions without clearing, deduplicating, or bounding the vector. A malicious SSH server that deliberately sends private message number 7 can therefore retain an unbounded number of attacker-controlled extension names for the session lifetime, causing progressive client memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 17% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RU
russh · Eugeny
< 0.65.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116773
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116773
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/b33e93beec393e6d29eee69c1b8831736724ee75
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.65.0
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-4p9f-7p9m-5vfg
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