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Unlimited resource allocation by QUIC CRYPTO frames flooding in quiche

Moderate
mskowroncf published GHSA-78wx-jg4j-5j6g Mar 12, 2024

Package

cargo quiche (Rust)

Affected versions

<0.19.2
0.20.0

Patched versions

0.19.2
0.20.1

Description

Impact

Cloudflare Quiche (through version 0.19.1/0.20.0) was affected by an unlimited resource allocation vulnerability causing rapid increase of memory usage of the system running quiche server or client.

A remote attacker could take advantage of this vulnerability by repeatedly sending an unlimited number of 1-RTT CRYPTO frames after previously completing the QUIC handshake.
Exploitation was possible for the duration of the connection which could be extended by the attacker.

Patches

quiche 0.19.2 and 0.20.1 are the earliest versions containing the fix for this issue.

Severity

Moderate
5.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2024-1765