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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-22189 json

QUIC's Connection ID Mechanism vulnerable to Memory Exhaustion Attack

published 2024-04-02 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-1180 , GHSA-c33x-xqrf-c478 , GO-2024-2682

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/quic-go/quic-go 0.42.0
  • quic-go_project quic-go 0.42.0
  • golang-github-lucas-clemente-quic-go Debian 14, Debian 13 0.46.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-22189

  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.4.9-2.el8ap
  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.4.9-2.el9ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.4.9-2.el8ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.4.9-2.el9ap
  • automation-gateway-server ansible automation platform 2.5 2.5.3-1.el8ap
  • automation-gateway-server ansible automation platform 2.5 2.5.3-1.el9ap
  • automation-controller-venv-tower ansible automation platform 2.5 4.6.2-1.el8ap
  • automation-controller-venv-tower ansible automation platform 2.5 4.6.2-1.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:8534

  • dnscrypt-proxy openSUSE Leap 16.0 2.1.16-bp160.1.1
  • coredns Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 1.11.3-bp156.4.3.1
  • caddy Package Hub 15 SP6, openSUSE Leap 15.6 2.8.4-bp156.3.3.1
  • caddy Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.5 2.8.4-bp155.2.3.1
  • kubo openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.27.0-2.1
  • syncthing openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.27.6-1.1
  • coredns openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.11.1-5.1
  • caddy openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.8.4-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-RU-2026:21160-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0319-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0220-1openSUSE-SU-2024:0211-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13845-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13847-1

  • kubo Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +2 more 0.28.0-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2024-22189

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • coredns Azure Linux 3.0 1.11.1-2
  • coredns CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.11.1-6

azure linux advisories AZL-39749AZL-39851

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-22189 updated cvss 7.5

quic-go: memory exhaustion attack against QUIC's connection ID mechanism

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/lighthouse-agent-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.10 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/volsync-rhel9 v0.9.2-8, rhacm2/volsync-operator-bundle v0.9.2-9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:4144
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 receptor 1.4.9-2.el8ap, receptorctl 1.4.9-2.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.4.9-2.el9ap, receptorctl 1.4.9-2.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8534
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 openshift4/ose-coredns-rhel9 v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.g04d84f7.assembly.stream.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0041
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (RHOSDS) 3.23 devspaces 3.23-1756504388
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:15847
  • Red Hat RHOSSM 2.6 for RHEL 8 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 1.73.9-2, openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8 2.6.0-19, openshift-service-mesh/grafana-rhel8 2.6.0-7, openshift-service-mesh/ratelimit-rhel8 2.6.0-8, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8 2.6.0-21, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel8 1.73.10-3, +3 more Red Hat RHOSSM 2.6 for RHEL 9 openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel9 2.6.0-18
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5094
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-hub 4.10.1-1.el8ap, automation-gateway 2.5.3-1.el8ap, automation-controller 4.6.2-1.el8ap, python3.11-galaxy-ng 4.10.1-1.el8ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.2-1.el8ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.2-1.el8ap, +19 more Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-hub 4.10.1-1.el9ap, automation-gateway 2.5.3-1.el9ap, automation-controller 4.6.2-1.el9ap, python3.11-galaxy-ng 4.10.1-1.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.2-1.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.2-1.el9ap, +19 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 rhcos 416.94.202406172220-0, openshift4/ose-cli-rhel9 v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.ga245041.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-pod-rhel9 v4.16.0-202406170957.p0.g29c95f3.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-sdn-rhel9 v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.g5b658c4.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-etcd-rhel9 v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.gbc2fec2.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-tests-rhel9 v4.16.0-202406131906.p0.g3bb691e.assembly.stream.el9, +185 more Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (RHOSDS) 3.23 devspaces 3.23-1756506343, devspaces 3.23-1756507311, devspaces 3.23-1756509551, devspaces 3.23-1756753588, devspaces 3.23-1756828766, devspaces 3.23-1757017659, +8 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/quic-go/quic-go
<0.42.0
0.42.0

Affected products

  • quic-go quic-go
  • quic-go_project quic-go

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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