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russh: Client-side channel-scoped Handler callbacks fire for channel IDs the client never opened

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### Summary CVE-2026-68930 was fixed by adding `Session::is_established_channel()` in `russh/src/server/encrypted.rs`, which gates every channel-scoped SERVER-side message (CHANNEL_REQUEST, CHANNEL_DATA, CHANNEL_EOF, CHANNEL_CLOSE, CHANNEL_WINDOW_ADJUST, CHANNEL_EXTENDED_DATA) on `enc.channels.get(&channel).is_some_and(|c| c.confirmed)` before invoking any `Handler` callback. The identical validation was never added to the CLIENT side (`russh/src/client/encrypted.rs`), which processes channel-scoped messages sent by the SSH SERVER once the client has authenticated. ### Details In `client_read_authenticated` (`russh/src/client/encrypted.rs`, ~lines 431-757), for CHANNEL_DATA, CHANNEL_EXTENDED_DATA, CHANNEL_EOF, CHANNEL_CLOSE, CHANNEL_OPEN_FAILURE, CHANNEL_SUCCESS, CHANNEL_FAILURE, and the CHANNEL_REQUEST sub-types exit-status/exit-signal/xon-xoff, the code only optionally forwards the event to the internal per-channel mpsc sender via `if let Some(chan) = self.channels.get(&channel_num) { ... }` (a no-op if the channel is unknown), but then **unconditionally** calls the corresponding public `Handler` trait method (`client.data(...)`, `client.exit_status(...)`, `client.channel_close(...)`, `client.channel_success(...)`, etc.) regardless of whether `channel_num` corresponds to any channel the client ever opened or that was ever confirmed. Only CHANNEL_OPEN_CONFIRMATION (closes the connection with `Error::Inconsistent` if unknown) and CHANNEL_WINDOW_ADJUST (returns early with `Ok(

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GHSA-47hw-gvq5-r2gm

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Source reference: osv:GHSA-47hw-gvq5-r2gm

russh

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0.63.1

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    "package": {
      "name": "russh",
      "purl": "pkg:cargo/russh",
      "ecosystem": "crates.io"
    },
    "database_specific": {
      "source": "https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/09/GHSA-47hw-gvq5-r2gm/GHSA-47hw-gvq5-r2gm.json",
      "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 0.63.0"
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Related CVEs
CVE-2026-102823

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high

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