Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting github.com/golang/crypto/ssh package, versions <0.52.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMGOLANGCRYPTOSSH-16795339
  • published22 May 2026
  • disclosed22 May 2026
  • creditNCC Group Cryptography Services

Introduced: 22 May 2026

CVE-2026-39829  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/golang/crypto/ssh to version 0.52.0 or higher.

Overview

github.com/golang/crypto/ssh is a SSH client and server

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the public key parsers. An attacker can exhaust CPU resources by submitting crafted RSA or DSA public keys with excessively large parameters during signature verification. This can be triggered by unauthenticated clients during public key authentication.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1