{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73430","details":"Russh is a Rust SSH client & server library. Prior to 0.62.4, an unauthenticated SSH client can cause a denial of service by sending SSH_MSG_KEX_ECDH_INIT with a 32-byte all-zero Q_C value. Curve25519Kex::server_dh in russh/src/kex/curve25519.rs accepts the all-zero peer public value and computes an all-zero shared secret, after which compute_exchange_hash calls encode_mpint in russh/src/kex/mod.rs and indexes beyond the end of the input while skipping leading zero bytes. The resulting panic occurs before authentication and terminates the server key-exchange task. This issue is fixed in version 0.62.4.","modified":"2026-10-17T13:01:03.537728541Z","published":"2026-08-12T21:17:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-73430"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-73430"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73430"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-5xvq-cp9x-6p6r"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"rust-russh","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.10","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/rust-russh?arch=source&distro=stonking"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["0.57.1-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"librust-russh-dev","binary_version":"0.57.1-2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73430.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}