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rust-russh — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46702

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.

Products
rust-russh
Affected versions
0.57.1-1, 0.57.1-2
Fixed versions
0.64.1-1
CVEs
CVE-2026-46702
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 12:15 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46702

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jun 2026, 22:17 UTC

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.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46702

rust-russh

Fixed versions: 0.64.1-1

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46702",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46702",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2026-46702",
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            "value": "0.64.1-1",
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          }
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        "affected_versions": [
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            "value": "0.57.1-1",
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          },
          {
            "value": "0.57.1-2",
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          }
        ]
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    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
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          ],
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          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-14T16:00:16.582934031Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46702"
      ]
    },
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        "evidence": "/upstream"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 316447,
  "published_at": "2026-06-10T22:17:00.58+00:00"
}