Cloudflare quiche up to 0.19.0/0.20.0 resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Cloudflare quiche up to 0.19.0/0.20.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-1765. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Cloudflare quiche up to 0.19.0/0.20.0 (Cloud Software). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Cloudflare Quiche (through version 0.19.1/0.20.0) was affected by an unlimited resource allocation vulnerability causing rapid increase of memory usage of the system running quiche server or client. A remote attacker could take advantage of this vulnerability by repeatedly sending an unlimited number of 1-RTT CRYPTO frames after previously completing the QUIC handshake. Exploitation was possible for the duration of the connection which could be extended by the attacker.  quiche 0.19.2 and 0.20.1 are the earliest versions containing the fix for this issue.

The weakness was shared 03/12/2024 by Marten Seeman as GHSA-78wx-jg4j-5j6g. The advisory is shared at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-1765 since 02/22/2024. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 0.19.1 or 0.20.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• 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
• 0.20.0

Website

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

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