Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 58% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
quinn-rs · quinnReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13545https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19712https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22862https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5459https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31812https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2446330https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvm-j4wr-6v98https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-31812.json