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CVE-2026-102824: Russh: Missing X25519 zero-point validation in hybrid ML-KEM key exchange

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-29 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-327

Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.0, the hybrid ML-KEM 768 and X25519 implementation in russh/src/kex/hybrid_mlkem.rs accepts an all-zero 32-byte peer X25519 public key in both server_dh and compute_shared_secret, forcing the X25519 contribution to the combined shared secret to zero. A malicious SSH peer can therefore make the combined secret depend only on ML-KEM, defeating the hybrid exchange's intended fallback protection if ML-KEM is later weakened. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.0.

Affected products

• Eugeny russh: before 0.63.0

References

• https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/commit/8da8967f196472576b1565d518a0ed60fce60f0c
• https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/releases/tag/v0.63.0
• https://github.com/Eugeny/russh/security/advisories/GHSA-w3jg-pjxf-73p4

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