CVE-2024-53259 (GCVE-0-2024-53259)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-02 16:12 – Updated: 2024-12-02 19:28
VLAI
Title
quic-go affected by an ICMP Packet Too Large Injection Attack on Linux
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-02 19:27 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7993 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
quic-go quic-go Affected: < 0.48.2
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