# CVE-2026-25667: ASP.NET Core Kestrel in Microsoft .NET 8.0 before 8.0.22 and .NET 9.0 before 9.0.11 allows a remote attacker to cause excessive CPU consumpt

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-03-19 · Updated: 2026-04-29

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

ASP.NET Core Kestrel in Microsoft .NET 8.0 before 8.0.22 and .NET 9.0 before 9.0.11 allows a remote attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption by sending a crafted QUIC packet, because of an incorrect exit condition for HTTP/3 Encoder/Decoder stream processing.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/IsaJafarov/Kestrel-DoS
- https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/commit/96ccc40a0e095424b19506e8268b9b1a3e23d6a7#diff-667d5b3693f93a0f706ab211428998b210862f9b885d917104d2013118312626
- https://github.com/IsaJafarov/Q3Fuzz

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