5.3mediumMedium
CVE-2026-31812
Quinn is a pure-Rust, async-compatible implementation of the IETF QUIC transport protocol. Prior to 0.11.14, a remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a denial of service in applications using vulnerable quinn versions by sending a crafted QUIC Initial packet containing malformed quic_transport_parameters. In quinn-proto parsing logic, attacker-controlled varints are decoded with unwrap(), so truncated encodings cause Err(UnexpectedEnd) and panic. This is reachable over the network with a single packet and no prior trust or authentication. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.11.14.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, no account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 5.3 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L- CVSS v4
- 8.7
- Weakness
- CWE-248
- Assigned by
- security-advisories@github.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-03-10
- Last modified
- 2026-08-25
- Sources
- NVD
References
- https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvm-j4wr-6v98
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13545
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19712
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22862
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5459
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31812
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446330
- https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31812.json