🛡️ GHSA-2x7m-gf85-3745 — microsoft.native.quic.msquic.openssl (CVE-2024-26190)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-401 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in Microsoft QUIC

Impact

The MsQuic server will continue to leak memory until no more is available, resulting in a denial of service.

Patches

The following patch was made:

  • Fix Memory Leak from Multiple Decodes of TP - https://github.com/microsoft/msquic/commit/5d070d661c45979946615289e92bb6b822efe9e9

Workarounds

Beyond upgrading to the patched versions, there is no other workaround.

MSRC CVE Info

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-26190

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-2x7m-gf85-3745 is classified as CWE-401: Memory Leak. Allocated memory is never released, so long-running or repeated operations gradually exhaust it.

Affected software

GHSA-2x7m-gf85-3745 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • microsoft.native.quic.msquic.openssl (from 2.3.0 up to 2.3.5)
  • microsoft.native.quic.msquic.schannel (fixed in 2.1.12)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 March 2024 and last revised on 1 December 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
msrc.microsoft.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-401
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-03-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-12-01
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
microsoft.native.quic.msquic.openssl 2.3.0 2.3.5
microsoft.native.quic.msquic.schannel 2.1.12

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