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CVE-2026-116773

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 · Deferred

Published: 2026-10-27 · Updated: 2026-10-27 · Source: NVD

Stored catalog record

Source record retrieved 2026-10-28T10:28:00.654925+00:00. Scheduled imports handle updates; this page does not assert that the provider was queried just now.

Vulnerability overview

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.

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Severity and scoring

CVSS score
4.3 · MEDIUM
CVSS version
3.1
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-770

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Known exploitation and remediation

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