Bug 2543498 (CVE-2026-102824) - CVE-2026-102824 russh: russh: Cryptographic fallback bypass via missing public key validation
Summary: CVE-2026-102824 russh: russh: Cryptographic fallback bypass via missing publi...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-102824
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-29 18:40 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-29 19:01 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-29 18:40:29 UTC
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.


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