Quicly is vulnerable to connection state corruption
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
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 quicly (h2o) Fixed in 8b178e6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-44436
References
More h2oai Quicly vulnerabilities
- 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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