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TI-2026-20864 Aliases CVE-2026-25800

quinn-proto has remote memory exhaustion from unbounded out-of-order stream reassembly

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-770Published · Updated

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

Quinn is a pure-Rust, async-compatible implementation of the IETF QUIC transport protocol. Starting in version 0.1.0 and prior to version 0.11.15, the `Assembler` component that assembles unordered stream fragments into consecutive chunks of the stream incurs some overhead for non-contiguous fragments. Readers that read from a `RecvStream` in order (through an `AsyncRead` impl for example) will be sensitive to peers that send fragments while leaving out early parts of the stream, and in particular, fragments with many gaps (because these cannot be defragmented). In such a scenario, the receiving connection suffers from high buffer overhead, enabling memory exhaustion. Version 0.11.15 fixes the issue.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00841 58th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed quinn (quinn-rs): 0.11.15

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
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-rsquinn0.1.0 to before 0.11.150.11.15Patch availableCNA
  • quinn Vendorquinn-rs Affected 0.1.0 to before 0.11.15 Fixed in 0.11.15 Patch available CNA

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA quinn (quinn-rs) Fixed in 0.11.15

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 18 products
  • Ansible Automation Orchestrator 2026
  • Confidential Compute Attestation
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
  • OpenShift Lightspeed
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3
  • Red Hat Hardened Images
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5
  • Red Hat OpenShift Update Service
  • Red Hat Quay 3
  • Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer
  • Red Hat Trusted Profile Analyzer

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-25800
  2. 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat

References

  • TI-2026-24365 Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7

Sources