CVE-2026-31812 PUBLISHED

Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 10.03.2026 Updated: 11.03.2026

Quinn is a pure-Rust, async-compatible implementation of the IETF QUIC transport protocol. Prior to 0.11.14, a remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a denial of service in applications using vulnerable quinn versions by sending a crafted QUIC Initial packet containing malformed quic_transport_parameters. In quinn-proto parsing logic, attacker-controlled varints are decoded with unwrap(), so truncated encodings cause Err(UnexpectedEnd) and panic. This is reachable over the network with a single packet and no prior trust or authentication. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.11.14.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor quinn-rs
Product quinn
Versions
  • Version < 0.11.14 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-248: Uncaught Exception CWE