GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf

Aliases

Downstream

CGA (14)

Published

2024-01-10T15:08:40Z

Modified

2026-07-17T21:14:32Z

Severity

6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

quic-go's path validation mechanism can be exploited to cause denial of service

Details

An attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory sending a large number of PATH_CHALLENGE frames. The receiver is supposed to respond to each PATH_CHALLENGE frame with a PATH_RESPONSE frame. The attacker can prevent the receiver from sending out (the vast majority of) these PATH_RESPONSE frames by collapsing the peers congestion window (by selectively acknowledging received packets) and by manipulating the peer's RTT estimate.

I published a more detailed description of the attack and its mitigation in this blog post: https://seemann.io/posts/2023-12-18-exploiting-quics-path-validation/

There's no way to mitigate this attack, please update quic-go to a version that contains the fix.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2024-01-10T15:08:40Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2024-01-10T22:15:50Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Package

Name: github.com/quic-go/quic-go; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.40.0

Fixed

0.40.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.40.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf.json"

github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Package

Name: github.com/quic-go/quic-go; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.39.0

Fixed

0.39.4

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf.json"

github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Package

Name: github.com/quic-go/quic-go; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0.38.0

Fixed

0.38.2

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf.json"

github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Package

Name: github.com/quic-go/quic-go; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:golang/github.com/quic-go/quic-go

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.37.7

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/01/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf.json"