Denial of service in QUIC protocol for Go



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2024-22189
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 quic-go
Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products

Vendor quic-go

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU88883

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22189

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing a large number of NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames that retire old connection IDs. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

quic-go: 0.4 - 0.41.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/security/advisories/GHSA-c33x-xqrf-c478
https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/4a99b816ae3ab03ae5449d15aac45147c85ed47a
https://seemann.io/posts/2024-03-19-exploiting-quics-connection-id-management
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqXtYcZAtIA&t=3683s


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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