quinn-proto has remote memory exhaustion from unbounded out-of-order stream reassembly
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
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
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
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-25800
- 2026-10-30 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
More quinn-rs vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-24365 Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2026-25800 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-25800 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- CVE-2026-25800 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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