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GHSA-C33X-XQRF-C478

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-02 14:16 – Updated: 2024-04-05 18:53

Summary

QUIC's Connection ID Mechanism vulnerable to Memory Exhaustion Attack

Details

An attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory by sending a large number of NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames that retire old connection IDs. The receiver is supposed to respond to each retirement frame with a RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame. The attacker can prevent the receiver from sending out (the vast majority of) these RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames by collapsing the peers congestion window (by selectively acknowledging received packets) and by manipulating the peer's RTT estimate.

I published a more detailed description of the attack and its mitigation in this blog post: https://seemann.io/posts/2024-03-19-exploiting-quics-connection-id-management/. I also presented this attack in the IETF QUIC working group session at IETF 119: https://youtu.be/JqXtYcZAtIA?si=nJ31QKLBSTRXY35U&t=3683

There's no way to mitigate this attack, please update quic-go to a version that contains the fix.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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  "modified": "2024-04-05T18:53:25Z",
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CVE-2024-22189 (GCVE-0-2024-22189)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-04 14:25 – Updated: 2024-08-23 19:29

Title

QUIC's Connection ID Mechanism vulnerable to Memory Exhaustion Attack

Summary

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Prior to version 0.42.0, an attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory sending a large number of `NEW_CONNECTION_ID` frames that retire old connection IDs. The receiver is supposed to respond to each retirement frame with a `RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID` frame. The attacker can prevent the receiver from sending out (the vast majority of) these `RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID` frames by collapsing the peers congestion window (by selectively acknowledging received packets) and by manipulating the peer's RTT estimate. Version 0.42.0 contains a patch for the issue. No known workarounds are available.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-09 14:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/security/advis…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/4a99b81…	x_refsource_MISC
https://seemann.io/posts/2024-03-19-exploiting-qu…	x_refsource_MISC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqXtYcZAtIA&t=3683s	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
quic-go	quic-go	Affected: < 0.42.0
quic-go_project	quic-go	Affected: 0 , < 0.42.0 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:quic-go_project:quic-go::::::::

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