CVE-2024-1410
quiche vulnerable to unbounded storage of information related to connection ID retirement
Impact
### Impact Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to unbounded storage of information related to connection ID retirement, which could lead to excessive resource consumption. Each QUIC connection possesses a set of connection Identifiers (IDs); see [RFC 9000 Section 5.1](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-5.1). Endpoints declare the number of active connection IDs they are willing to support using the active_connection_id_limit transport parameter. The peer can create new IDs using a NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame but must stay within the active ID limit. This is done by retirement of old IDs, the endpoint sends NEW_CONNECTION_ID includes a value in the retire_prior_to field, which elicits a RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame as confirmation. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames and manipulating the connection (e.g. by restricting the peer's congestion window size) so that RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames can only be sent at a slower rate than they are received, leading to storage of information related to connection IDs in an unbounded queue. ### Patches Quiche versions 0.19.2 and 0.20.1 are the earliest to address this problem. There is no workaround for affected versions.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| rust | quiche | < 0.19.2 | 0.19.2 |
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Quiche | before 0.19.2 Version 0.20.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-xhg9-xwch-vr7x
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhg9-xwch-vr7x
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-1410
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/commit/0c5733a84c41e9e178adc866b11ce59ac264f5af
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/commit/5be8143126f8cfa8a483d4a5ae475b9a46053fa1
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/commit/7ab42af5f5e97f20f1d63b7ea2f9ab0536678c40
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/commit/a983998c4408605905ee9a6ab0fc00e68436ac67
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/releases/tag/0.19.2
- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/releases/tag/0.20.1