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TI-2026-32375 Aliases CVE-2026-44434

Quicly is vulnerable to stateless reset injection

Priority LOW 29CWE-345Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Security bypass
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · Low
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-345.

Summary

Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit dccf5d4, Quicly was vulnerable to stateless reset injection through lack of packet entry validation. The QUIC protocol is designed to withstand packet injection attacks, once the handshake is complete. Only packets that carry some secret patterns are considered as stateless resets. Quicly allows the peer to share up to 4 such patterns per connection. However, until now, it failed to determine which of the 4 slots that it uses to retain the secret patterns contains a valid entry. As the slots are zero-initialized, the failure meant that, unless the peer advertised 4 of such patterns, an all-zero pattern was treated as a stateless reset.In effect, this allowed an on-path attacker to reset QUIC connections governed by Quicly. This issue has been fixed by commit dccf5d4.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00209 11th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

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
h2oaiquicly< dccf5d4—No fix listedCNA
  • quicly Vendorh2oai Affected < dccf5d4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:h2o:quicly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 2026-05-29Vulnerableh2oai
  • cpe:2.3:a:h2o:quicly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 2026-05-29 Vulnerable ·h2oai

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-44434

References

  • TI-2026-32377 Quicly is vulnerable to connection state corruption CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-32376 Quicly: Remote Denial of Service via assertion failure when CRYPTO stream handshake data exceeds 32KB CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2026-32374 Quicly is vulnerable to memory exhaustion CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-38115 Quicly has assertion failures CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

Sources

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