PT-2021-11091 · Picoquic · Picoquic

Published 2021-02-08 · Updated 2021-02-11 · CVE-2020-24944

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: picoquic versions prior to July 3, 2020

Description: The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an infinite loop, via a crafted QUIC frame. This is related to the picoquic decode frames and picoquic decode stream frame functions when epoch equals 3.

Recommendations: For versions prior to July 3, 2020, consider updating to a version released after this date to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the handling of crafted QUIC frames to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

CVE-2020-24944

Affected Products

Picoquic

References · 4

• 🔥 https://github.com/private-octopus/picoquic/issues/969 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-24944 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-24944 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/9748 · Telegram Post