CVE-2026-55367 PUBLISHED

h2o: heap exhaustion using capsules

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 16.06.2026 Published: 04.11.2026 Updated: 04.11.2026

h2o is an HTTP server with support for HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3. Prior to commit 4212ce114506a073505fd389db16ad2ba4e582a0, a client could send an incomplete CONNECT-UDP Capsule with an excessively large declared length, causing H2O to keep buffering received bytes without a per-Capsule limit while waiting for the remainder. Deployments that enabled proxy.connect-udp and accepted CONNECT-UDP requests could exhaust server memory and lose availability. This vulnerability is fixed with commit 4212ce114506a073505fd389db16ad2ba4e582a0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor h2o
Product h2o
Versions
  • Version < 4212ce114506a073505fd389db16ad2ba4e582a0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE