Medium severity · published Oct 27, 2026
CVE-2026-116774
russh: peer-declared zero maximum packet size permanently stalls channel writes (silent AsyncWrite hang)
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. From 0.60.0 until 0.65.0, channel-open parsing accepts a peer-declared maximum_packet_size of zero and passes it into ChannelTx::poll_writable in russh/src/channels/io/tx.rs. The Channel::data, Channel::make_writer, and Channel::into_stream asynchronous write paths then calculate a writable size of zero and remain pending forever because window adjustments cannot satisfy a static zero packet maximum. An authenticated client can strand server writes, and a malicious server can strand client writes, allowing affected tasks, channels, and connections to accumulate without surfacing an error. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 18% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RU
russh · Eugeny
>= 0.60.0, < 0.65.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-116774
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-116774
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/39cb9dbaa37caf555d34c6c22efa3bbbff9e186c
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.65.0
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-fw5c-8223-6h42
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