CVE-2026-21438 (GCVE-0-2026-21438)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-12 18:25 – Updated: 2026-02-12 18:25
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Title
webtransport-go affected by a Memory Exhaustion Attack due to Missing Cleanup of Streams Map
Summary
webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. Prior to 0.10.0, an attacker can cause unbounded memory consumption repeatedly creating and closing many WebTransport streams. Closed streams were not removed from an internal session map, preventing garbage collection of their resources. This vulnerability is fixed in v0.10.0.
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • CWE-459 - Incomplete Cleanup
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
quic-go webtransport-go Affected: < 0.10.0
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