CVE-2026-48107 Russh: Unchecked keyboard-interactive prompt count in client auth path

Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. From version 0.37.0 to before version 0.61.0, in the russh client keyboard-interactive authentication path, a malicious SSH server could send a USERAUTHINFOREQUEST with an attacker-controlled prompt count, and the client would use that raw count direct...

CVE-2026-48107

Russh (Rust SSH client/server) is affected in versions 0.37.0–0.60.x where the client’s keyboard-interactive auth path accepts an attacker-controlled prompt count via USERAUTH_INFO_REQUEST. The code uses the raw count directly in Vec::with_capacity(...) before verifying sufficient prompt data, en...

GHSA-F5V4-2WR6-HQMG russh has pre-auth DoS via unbounded allocation in its keyboard-interactive auth handler

Summary 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 credential...

curl security and bug fix update

7.61.1-33.5 - cap SFTP packet size sent RHEL-5485 - when keyboard-interactive auth fails, try password 2229800 - unify the upload/method handling CVE-2023-28322 - fix cookie injection with none file CVE-2023-38546 - lowercase the domain names before PSL checks CVE-2023-46218...