Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rust-russh package, versions <0.64.1-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.76% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-RUSTRUSSH-17311231
  • published12 Jun 2026
  • disclosed8 May 2026

Introduced: 8 May 2026

CVE-2026-42189  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 rust-russh to version 0.64.1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rust-russh package and not the rust-russh package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to version 0.60.1, a pre-authentication denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the server's keyboard-interactive authentication handler. A malicious client can crash any russh-based server that implements keyboard-interactive auth (e.g., for 2FA/TOTP) with a single malformed packet, requiring no credentials. This issue has been patched in version 0.60.1.