Improper input validation in Eugeny Russh

CVE-2026-48108

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. From version 0.34.0-beta.1 to before version 0.61.0, russh did not enforce the SSH identification-string rules as deliberately as OpenSSH. In particular, the server-side identification reader used the same permissive path as the client, allowing pre-banner lines from clients, and the reader did not enforce a bounded number of pre-banner lines. For a library server built on russh, this could allow a remote peer to hold connection setup resources in the cleartext pre-authentication phase with malformed identification input that should have been rejected early. This issue has been patched in version 0.61.0.

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.003 (20.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.