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CVE-2025-64702GO-2025-4233GHSA-G754-HX8W-X2G6

quic-go HTTP/3 QPACK Header Expansion DoS

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.57.0
1 proof of concept on GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Versions 0.56.0 and below are vulnerable to excessive memory allocation through quic-go's HTTP/3 client and server implementations by sending a QPACK-encoded HEADERS frame that decodes into a large header field section (many unique header names and/or large values). The implementation builds an http.Header (used on the http.Request and http.Response, respectively), while only enforcing limits on the size of the (QPACK-compressed) HEADERS frame, but not on the decoded header, leading to memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.57.0.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • quic-go quic-go

    fixed in 0.57.0

  • github.com/quic-go/quic-goGo

    fixed in 0.57.0

References 3

GitHub · quic-go/quic-go

GitHub · HORKimhab/CVE-2025-64702-more