Cloudflare quiche up to 0.19.1/0.20.0 resource consumption

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A vulnerability was found in Cloudflare quiche up to 0.19.1/0.20.0. It has been rated as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. This manipulation causes resource consumption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-1410. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability has been found in Cloudflare quiche up to 0.19.1/0.20.0 (Cloud Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to unbounded storage of information related to connection ID retirement, which could lead to excessive resource consumption. Each QUIC connection possesses a set of connection Identifiers (IDs); see RFC 9000 Section 5.1 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-5.1 . Endpoints declare the number of active connection IDs they are willing to support using the active_connection_id_limit transport parameter. The peer can create new IDs using a NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame but must stay within the active ID limit. This is done by retirement of old IDs, the endpoint sends NEW_CONNECTION_ID includes a value in the retire_prior_to field, which elicits a RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame as confirmation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames and manipulating the connection (e.g. by restricting the peer's congestion window size) so that RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames can only be sent at a slower rate than they are received, leading to storage of information related to connection IDs in an unbounded queue. Quiche versions 0.19.2 and 0.20.1 are the earliest to address this problem. There is no workaround for affected versions.

The weakness was published 03/12/2024 by Marten Seeman as GHSA-xhg9-xwch-vr7x. The advisory is shared at github.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-1410 since 02/09/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.19.2 or 0.20.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Cloud Software

Vendor

• Cloudflare

Name

• quiche

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.19.0
• 0.19.1
• 0.20.0

Website

• Product: https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/

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