CVE-2024-43410 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Russh, a Rust SSH client and server library, and products utilizing it such as Warpgate. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending specially crafted SSH packets with an untrusted length field, causing the server to allocate excessive memory and crash due to an Out-of-Memory (OOM) error. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, organizations using affected versions should upgrade to Russh 0.44.1 immediately to mitigate this risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 0.44.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:russh_project:russh:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | ||
< 0.10.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:warpgate_project:warpgate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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