CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-6193
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-12-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
quiche v. 0.15.0 through 0.19.0 was discovered to be vulnerable to unbounded queuing of path validation messages, which could lead to excessive resource consumption.
QUIC path validation (RFC 9000 Section 8.2) requires that the recipient of a PATH_CHALLENGE frame responds by sending a PATH_RESPONSE. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending PATH_CHALLENGE frames and manipulating the connection (e.g. by restricting the peer's congestion window size) so that PATH_RESPONSE frames can only be sent at the slower rate than they are received; leading to storage of path validation data in an unbounded queue.
Quiche versions greater than 0.19.0 address this problem.
Affected configurations
• cloudflare quiche (>= 0.15.0 <= 0.19.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-8.2 Technical Description
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-w3vp-jw9m-f9pm Vendor Advisory
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-8.2 Technical Description
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-w3vp-jw9m-f9pm Vendor Advisory