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TI-2024-30382 Aliases CVE-2024-45311GHSA-vr26-jcq5-fjj8

Denial of service in quinn-proto when using `Endpoint::retry()`

Priority HIGH 72CWE-670Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Quinn is a pure-Rust, async-compatible implementation of the IETF QUIC transport protocol. As of quinn-proto 0.11, it is possible for a server to `accept()`, `retry()`, `refuse()`, or `ignore()` an `Incoming` connection. However, calling `retry()` on an unvalidated connection exposes the server to a likely panic in the following situations: 1. Calling `refuse` or `ignore` on the resulting validated connection, if a duplicate initial packet is received. This issue can go undetected until a server's `refuse()`/`ignore()` code path is exercised, such as to stop a denial of service attack. 2. Accepting when the initial packet for the resulting validated connection fails to decrypt or exhausts connection IDs, if a similar initial packet that successfully decrypts and doesn't exhaust connection IDs is received. This issue can go undetected if clients are well-behaved. The former situation was observed in a real application, while the latter is only theoretical.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00568 47th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed quinn (quinn-rs): 0.11.7quinn-proto (crates.io): 0.11.7

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
quinn-rsquinn0.11.0 to before 0.11.70.11.7Patch availableCNA
—quinn-proto (crates.io)0.11.0 to before 0.11.70.11.7Patch availableGHSA-vr26-jcq5-fjj8
  • quinn Vendorquinn-rs Affected 0.11.0 to before 0.11.7 Fixed in 0.11.7 Patch available CNA
  • quinn-proto (crates.io) Vendor— Affected 0.11.0 to before 0.11.7 Fixed in 0.11.7 Patch available GHSA-vr26-jcq5-fjj8

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:quinn_project:quinn:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*0.11.0 to before 0.11.4VulnerableQuinn Project
  • cpe:2.3:a:quinn_project:quinn:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* Versions 0.11.0 to before 0.11.4 Vulnerable ·Quinn Project

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA quinn (quinn-rs) Fixed in 0.11.7
  • Fix · GHSA-vr26-jcq5-fjj8 quinn-proto (crates.io) Fixed in 0.11.7 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-45311
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vr26-jcq5-fjj8

References

  • TI-2026-24365 Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-20864 quinn-proto has remote memory exhaustion from unbounded out-of-order stream reassembly CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

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