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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-06-04 09:50

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

NGINX HTTP/3 QUIC vulnerability

Details

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate.

Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html .

Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

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CVE-2024-24990 (GCVE-0-2024-24990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-14 16:30 – Updated: 2025-05-08 15:19

Title

NGINX HTTP/3 QUIC vulnerability

Summary

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate. Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html . Note: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-416 - Use After Free

Assigner

References

URL

Tags

	https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000138445	vendor-advisory
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/4

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

NGINX Plus

Affected: R31 , < R31 P1 (custom)
Affected: R30 , < R30 P2 (custom)

NGINX Open Source

Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.4 (semver)

Credits

Show details on NVD website

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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