CVE-2026-111061

russh agent server converts constraint records into unbounded never-rolled-back tasks

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Oct 19, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Oct 15, 2026

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Description

russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. Prior to 0.64.1, the agent server spawns a separate long-lived task for every SSH_AGENT_CONSTRAIN_LIFETIME record in a constrained add-key request. The loop accepts repeated lifetime records, clones the key blob into each task, and does not roll back tasks when later constraint parsing fails. An attacker that can speak the agent protocol locally or through agent forwarding can exhaust memory and tasks until the agent process is starved or terminated, denying SSH agent service. This issue is fixed in version 0.64.1.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
russhEugeny
  • < 0.64.1Affected

References

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