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CVE-2026-116775: pageant: unbounded frame buffering on peer-controlled 4-byte length prefix (memory-exhaustion DoS)

LowCVSS 2.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 9/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.29% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Eugeny russh 0.2.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Eugeny russh 0.2.5 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

pageant provides a PageantStream type that implements AsyncRead and AsyncWrite traits and can be used to communicate with a running Pageant instance. From 0.2.0 until 0.2.5, PageantStream::new in pageant/src/wmmessage.rs trusts a peer-controlled four-byte length prefix and buffers until len + 4 bytes are available without checking the fixed _AGENT_MAX_MSGLEN transport capacity. An application that bridges an SSH forwarded-agent channel to the raw stream can allow a malicious server to force large allocations or retain a partially filled frame, causing client memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.2.5.

Published
Oct 27, 2026
Updated
Nov 3, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 22th percentile

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Action score

9

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
9 / 40 · 2.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
proof of concept
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
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CNA · GitHub_M
2.3
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Versions reported by the vendor

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  • Eugeny russh

    • >= 0.2.0, < 0.2.5affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
crates.iopageantfrom 0.2.0 · before 0.2.50.2.5

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-116794russh: Agent server never calls `Agent::confirm`, so keys added with the confirm constraint (`ssh-add -c`) sign without confirmation
    33Monitor
  • CVE-2026-102823russh: Client-side channel-scoped Handler callbacks fire for channel IDs the client never opened
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-48110Russh: SSH message fields were decoded through allocation-first parsers before field-specific bounds
    30Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-116773Oct 27, 2026 · russh's SSH client is susceptible to unbounded allocations via EXT_INFO packets
    17Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-116774Oct 27, 2026 · russh: peer-declared zero maximum packet size permanently stalls channel writes (silent AsyncWrite hang)
    17Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-111062Nov 5, 2026 · A russh SSH server accepts a publickey authentication whose signature uses a different algorithm than the one named in the request
    9Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Eugeny russh0.2.5 · descriptionVendor (CNA)
crates.io:pageant0.2.5Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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  1. Published
  2. Fix recordedsame day
  3. TodayNov 13, 2026+17 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-46673139 days apartRussh: Unchecked CryptoVec allocation and growth handling is reachable from local agent inputs in current russh releases and from remote SSH traffic in…
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-46702139 days apartRussh: Post-decompression SSH packet size was not bounded, allowing remote oversized compressed packets
    30Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1167730 days apartrussh's SSH client is susceptible to unbounded allocations via EXT_INFO packets
    17Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1110618 days apartrussh agent server converts constraint records into unbounded never-rolled-back tasks
    17Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1166960 days apartrussh's SSH agent server is susceptible to unbound allocations via repeated SSH_AGENT_CONSTRAIN_CONFIRM messages
    13Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: researcher credit · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
P
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → poc
  2. Exploit maturity— → none
  3. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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