CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
41.1%
An attacker can cause its peer to run out of memory sending a large number of PATH_CHALLENGE frames. The receiver is supposed to respond to each PATH_CHALLENGE frame with a PATH_RESPONSE frame. The attacker can prevent the receiver from sending out (the vast majority of) these PATH_RESPONSE 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/2023-12-18-exploiting-quics-path-validation/
There’s no way to mitigate this attack, please update quic-go to a version that contains the fix.
github.com/quic-go/quic-go
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/17fc98c2d81dbe685c19702dc694a9d606ac56dc
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/21609ddfeff93668c7625a85eb09f1541fdad965
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/3a9c18bcd27a01c551ac9bf8bd2b4bded77c189a
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/554d543b50b917369fb1394cc5396d928166cf49
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/6cc3d58935426191296171a6c0d1ee965e10534e
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/9aaefe19fc3dc8c8917cc87e6128bb56d9e9e6cc
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/a0ffa757499913f7be69aa78f573a6aee3430ae4
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/commit/d7aa627ebde91cf799ada2a07443faa9b1e5abb8
github.com/quic-go/quic-go/security/advisories/GHSA-ppxx-5m9h-6vxf
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/G5RSHDTVMYAIGYVVFGKTMFHAZJMA3EVV
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ZE7IOKXX5AATU2WR3V76X5Y3A44QAATG
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49295
seemann.io/posts/2023-12-18-exploiting-quics-path-validation
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
41.1%