Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to 0.62.4, a malicious SSH server can crash a russh client session with a malformed KEX_ECDH_REPLY containing a server ephemeral value that is not 32 bytes long. The client-side Curve25519Kex::compute_shared_secret function in russh/src/kex/curve25519.rs passes the decoded exchange.server_ephemeral value to clone_from_slice without validating its length, causing a deterministic panic before the server host key is verified. The panic terminates the spawned client session task and surfaces as a JoinError, while the embedding process normally remains running. This issue is fixed in version 0.62.4.
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GHSA-g9hv-x236-4qp3 | Russh: client wrong-length X25519 `clone_from_slice` panic (pre-auth DoS) |
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| Description | Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to 0.62.4, a malicious SSH server can crash a russh client session with a malformed KEX_ECDH_REPLY containing a server ephemeral value that is not 32 bytes long. The client-side Curve25519Kex::compute_shared_secret function in russh/src/kex/curve25519.rs passes the decoded exchange.server_ephemeral value to clone_from_slice without validating its length, causing a deterministic panic before the server host key is verified. The panic terminates the spawned client session task and surfaces as a JoinError, while the embedding process normally remains running. This issue is fixed in version 0.62.4. | |
| Title | Russh: client wrong-length X25519 `clone_from_slice` panic (pre-auth DoS) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-704 CWE-754 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-12T20:53:19.558Z
Reserved: 2026-08-12T14:32:11.796Z
Link: CVE-2026-73429
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-12T21:17:41.750
Modified: 2026-08-12T21:17:41.750
Link: CVE-2026-73429
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-12T23:00:05Z
Github GHSA