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TI-2026-32377 Aliases CVE-2026-44436

Quicly is vulnerable to connection state corruption

Priority LOW 39CWE-120Published · 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-120 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit 8b178e6, Quicly is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack through connection state corruption. In QUIC Invariants, the maximum length of a Connection ID is 255 bytes, while QUIC version 1 further restricts the maximum to 20 bytes. Quicly implements QUIC version 1 and therefore its CID buffers are limited to 20 bytes. However, to be able to respond to unknown versions of QUIC, its packet decoder accepts Connection IDs of up to 255 bytes. As its CID buffers are merely 20 bytes long, Quicly must reject QUIC version 1 packets with Connection IDs longer than that. The command line tool bundled with Quicly has had that check, however the library itself lacked such enforcement. As a consequence, when used by applications that lack their own enforcement, the connection state becoming inconsistent to buffer overrun. Fortunately, the overflow stops within the allocated chunk of memory, but nevertheless, the bug leads to assertion failures. This issue has been fixed by commit 8b178e6.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00493 42nd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed quicly (h2o): 8b178e6

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
h2oaiquiclybefore 8b178e68b178e6Patch availableCNA
  • quicly Vendorh2oai Affected before 8b178e6 Fixed in 8b178e6 Patch available 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

  • Fix · CNA quicly (h2o) Fixed in 8b178e6

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-44436

References

  • 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
  • TI-2026-32375 Quicly is vulnerable to stateless reset injection CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.3

Sources

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