CVE-2026-21438 PUBLISHED

webtransport-go affected by a Memory Exhaustion Attack due to Missing Cleanup of Streams Map

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 29.12.2025 Published: 12.02.2026 Updated: 17.02.2026

webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. Prior to 0.10.0, an attacker can cause unbounded memory consumption repeatedly creating and closing many WebTransport streams. Closed streams were not removed from an internal session map, preventing garbage collection of their resources. This vulnerability is fixed in v0.10.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor quic-go
Product webtransport-go
Versions
  • Version < 0.10.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime CWE
  • CWE-459: Incomplete Cleanup CWE