High severity · published Jun 10, 2026
CVE-2026-46702
Russh: Post-decompression SSH packet size was not bounded, allowing remote oversized compressed packets
7.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. From version 0.34.0 to before version 0.61.1, when SSH compression is enabled, russh accepted compressed packets whose on-wire size passed the normal transport packet-length checks but whose decompressed size was much larger. This allowed a remote peer to send oversized post-decompression packets that should have been rejected. In current releases, this is a remote denial-of-service / resource-exhaustion issue in the post-decompression receive path. In older releases before 0.58.0, the same remote decompression path used CryptoVec, which appears to make the historical impact worse. This issue has been patched in version 0.61.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 19% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RU
russh · Eugeny
>= 0.34.0, < 0.61.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46702
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46702
github.com
https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-wwx6-x28x-8259
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