What is CVE-2024-43410?

CVE-2024-43410 is a high-severity vulnerability in Eugeny Russh, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-08-21.

How severe is CVE-2024-43410?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Eugeny Russh

CVE-2024-43410

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Allocating an untrusted amount of memory allows any unauthenticated user to OOM a russh server. An SSH packet consists of a 4-byte big-endian length, followed by a byte stream of this length. Af…

EPSS: 0.006 (69.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Eugeny Russh — versions < 0.44.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-vgvv-x7xg-6cqg (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/f660ea3f64b86d11d19e33076012069f02431e55 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-43410?: CVE-2024-43410 is a high-severity vulnerability in Eugeny Russh, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-08-21.
How severe is CVE-2024-43410?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.