CVE-2026-48108CWE-20

Russh: SSH identification parsing accepted non-canonical client banners and did not bound pre-banner input

Medium · published June 10, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
40.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00474 · 40.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation
Published
2026-06-10T20:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 JUN 20:24Z
    Russh: SSH identification parsing accepted non-canonical client banners and did not bound pre-banner input
    cvelistv5