CVE-2026-102822 (GCVE-0-2026-102822)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-29 18:23 – Updated: 2026-09-29 19:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
russh: negotiating a MAC-requiring block cipher (CTR/CBC) with mac=none causes a slice-index-out-of-range panic
Summary
Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.1, a connection configured to permit mac=none can negotiate it with a MAC-requiring CTR or CBC block cipher because the selection logic validates needs_mac() only when MAC selection fails. A remote peer can then send a packet with a decrypted length of zero, causing russh/src/cipher/mod.rs to shrink the previously read block before indexing buffer.buffer[16..], which panics and terminates the connection task. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.1.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-29 19:53 UTC
CWE
- CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisori… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/2885385abf… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.63.1 | x_refsource_MISC |
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