GHSA-j972-j939-p2v3

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j972-j939-p2v3
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2025/06/GHSA-j972-j939-p2v3/GHSA-j972-j939-p2v3.json
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Published
2025-06-03T06:09:56Z
Modified
2025-06-04T20:57:25Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
quic-go Has Panic in Path Probe Loss Recovery Handling
Details

Impact

The loss recovery logic for path probe packets that was added in the v0.50.0 release can be used to trigger a nil-pointer dereference by a malicious QUIC client.

In order to do so, the attacker first sends valid QUIC packets from different remote addresses (thereby triggering the newly added path validation logic: the server sends path probe packets), and then sending ACKs for packets received from the server specifically crafted to trigger the nil-pointer dereference.

Patches

v0.50.1 contains a patch that fixes the vulnerability.

This release contains a test that generates random sequences of sent packets (both regular and path probe packets), that was used to verify that the patch actually covers all corner cases.

Workarounds

No.

References

This issue has been reported publicly, but without any context, in https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/issues/4981.

Database specific
{
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-06-03T06:09:56Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-248"
    ],
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-06-02T11:15:21Z"
}
References

Affected packages

Go / github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Package

Name
github.com/quic-go/quic-go
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Purl
pkg:golang/github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.50.0
Fixed
0.50.1