FKIE_CVE-2026-75804

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-29 16:17 - Updated: 2026-09-29 21:27
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
Issue summary: OpenSSL QUIC stack does not enforce connection level flow control for streams. Remote peers may send more bytes as long as they fit within the stream flow control limits. Impact summary: A malicious remote peer may exploit the lack of connection flow control for streams to make the QUIC stack receive ~100MB of memory instead of 768 KiB (default flow control window size). CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Description: The local QUIC stack advertises two flow control limits to its remote peer: stream flow control limit and connection flow control limit. The remote peer must follow both limits when transmitting stream data. Whenever the local QUIC stack receives a stream frame, it validates that the size of the received stream frame stays within flow control limits. If either limit is exceeded (stream level or connection level), then the QUIC stack must close the connection with a flow control error. The vulnerable OpenSSL QUIC stack enforces the stream-level but not the connection-level limit. To exploit the issue, three conditions must be met: - the remote peer opens several streams - each stream must stay within the stream-level flow control limit - there must be no zero-offset byte sent on any of the streams (to prevent the vulnerable QUIC stack from consuming data). By meeting the conditions above, the remote peer may make the local stack allocate 2 x MAX_STREAMS x (stream flow control limit) bytes of memory. MAX_STREAMS defaults to 100, and the limit applies to both bidirectional and unidirectional streams, making it 200 in total. The default flow control window for a stream is 512kB. The remote peer may force the vulnerable QUIC stack to allocate 100MB of heap per connection. FIPS impact: no The FIPS module is not affected as the QUIC implementation is outside of the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
References
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/2e8f54666b3fb7b05ff5f58aa6cac9285163654e
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/4533ee8a5686c953ed3b644738ac4bdf20806538
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/64d3102fb5b54311e92517f26ba00169d719e74a
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f9eaecf5bdd6692da052bc65b0332af2a938ac03
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt
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