CVE-2026-42189EPSS p41.3%

CVE-2026-42189CVE-2026-42189

russh_project / russh

Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to version 0.60.1, a pre-authentication denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the server's keyboard-interactive authentication handler. A malicious client can crash any russh-based server that implements keyboard-interactive auth (e.g., for 2FA/TOTP) with a single malformed packet, requiring no credentials. This issue has been patched in version 0.60.1.

Scoring

CVSS 7.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS0.48% probability of exploitation · percentile 41.3% · 2026-10-27T12:03:15Z
Last modified2026-10-26
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.