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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-43410 json

Russh has an OOM Denial of Service due to allocation of untrusted amount

published 2024-08-14 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vgvv-x7xg-6cqg , EUVD-2024-2664

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Allocating an untrusted amount of memory allows any unauthenticated user to OOM a russh server. An SSH packet consists of a 4-byte big-endian length, followed by a byte stream of this length. After parsing and potentially decrypting the 4-byte length, russh allocates enough memory for this bytestream, as a performance optimization to avoid reallocations later. But this length is entirely untrusted and can be set to any value by the client, causing this much memory to be allocated, which will cause the process to OOM within a few such requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.44.1.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io russh 0.44.1
  • russh_project russh 0.44.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-vgvv-x7xg-6cqg referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io russh
<0.44.1
0.44.1

Affected products

  • Eugeny russh
  • russh_project russh

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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