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medium 6.5

CVE-2024-53259 json

quic-go affected by an ICMP Packet Too Large Injection Attack on Linux

published 2024-12-02 23 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-3494 , GHSA-px8v-pp82-rcvr , GO-2024-3302

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. An off-path attacker can inject an ICMP Packet Too Large packet. Since affected quic-go versions used IP_PMTUDISC_DO, the kernel would then return a "message too large" error on sendmsg, i.e. when quic-go attempts to send a packet that exceeds the MTU claimed in that ICMP packet. By setting this value to smaller than 1200 bytes (the minimum MTU for QUIC), the attacker can disrupt a QUIC connection. Crucially, this can be done after completion of the handshake, thereby circumventing any TCP fallback that might be implemented on the application layer (for example, many browsers fall back to HTTP over TCP if they're unable to establish a QUIC connection). The attacker needs to at least know the client's IP and port tuple to mount an attack. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.48.2.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/quic-go/quic-go 0.48.2
  • quic-go_project quic-go 0.48.2
  • quic_project quic 0.48.2
  • golang-github-lucas-clemente-quic-go Debian 14, Debian 13 0.50.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-53259

  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.5.1-2.el8ap
  • receptor ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.5.1-2.el9ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.5.1-2.el8ap
  • receptorctl ansible automation platform inside 2.5, ansible automation platform developer 2.5, ansible automation platform 2.5 1.5.1-2.el9ap
  • automation-controller-venv-tower ansible automation platform 2.5 4.6.3-1.el8ap
  • automation-controller-venv-tower ansible automation platform 2.5 4.6.3-1.el9ap

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:10766

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241209T183251-1.1
  • teleport openSUSE Tumbleweed 17.0.3-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14567-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14544-1

  • coredns CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.11.1-16
  • coredns Azure Linux 3.0 1.11.4-1

azure linux advisories AZL-53807AZL-53818

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-2024-53259 updated cvss 6.5

quic-go: quic-go affected by an ICMP Packet Too Large Injection Attack on Linux

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/pilot-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel8, openshift-service-mesh/proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-coredns-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Use iptables to drop ICMP unreachable packets.”
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/subctl-rhel9 v0.18.5-3, rhacm2/nettest-rhel9 v0.18.5-3, rhacm2/volsync-rhel9 v0.10.2-2, rhacm2/lighthouse-agent-rhel9 v0.18.5-3, rhacm2/volsync-operator-bundle v0.10.2-3, rhacm2/lighthouse-coredns-rhel9 v0.18.5-3, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Use iptables to drop ICMP unreachable packets.” RHSA-2025:4810
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12 for RHEL 9 rhacm2/subctl-rhel9 v0.19.4-1, rhacm2/nettest-rhel9 v0.19.4-1, rhacm2/volsync-rhel9 v0.11.1-2, rhacm2/lighthouse-agent-rhel9 v0.19.4-1, rhacm2/volsync-operator-bundle v0.11.1-3, rhacm2/lighthouse-coredns-rhel9 v0.19.4-1, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix “Use iptables to drop ICMP unreachable packets.” RHSA-2025:4250
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 receptor 1.5.1-2.el8ap, receptorctl 1.5.1-2.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 receptor 1.5.1-2.el9ap, receptorctl 1.5.1-2.el9ap
    fixed: vendor fix “Use iptables to drop ICMP unreachable packets.” RHSA-2024:10766
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 automation-controller 4.6.3-1.el8ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.3-1.el8ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.3-1.el8ap, automation-controller-server 4.6.3-1.el8ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.6.3-1.el8ap, ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.5-6.el8ap Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 automation-controller 4.6.3-1.el9ap, automation-controller-ui 4.6.3-1.el9ap, automation-controller-cli 4.6.3-1.el9ap, automation-controller-server 4.6.3-1.el9ap, automation-controller-venv-tower 4.6.3-1.el9ap, ansible-automation-platform-installer 2.5-6.el9ap
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/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
<0.48.2
0.48.2

Affected products

  • quic-go quic-go

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

References

Sources

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