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CVE-2026-40898
quic-go: HTTP/3 QPACK Trailer Expansion Memory Exhaustion
Description

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Prior to version 0.59.1, an attacker can cause excessive memory allocation in quic-go's HTTP/3 client and server implementations by sending a QPACK-encoded HEADERS frame that decodes into a large trailer field section with many unique field names and/or large values. The implementation builds an `http.Header` for the corresponding `http.Request` or `http.Response`, while only enforcing limits on the size of the QPACK-compressed HEADERS frame, not on the decoded field section. This can lead to memory exhaustion. This is very similar to CVE-2025-64702. The difference is that this issue uses HTTP trailers, rather than HTTP headers, as the attack vector. A misbehaving or malicious peer can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against quic-go's HTTP/3 servers or clients by triggering excessive memory allocation, potentially leading to crashes or resource exhaustion. This affects both servers and clients due to symmetric header construction. Version 0.59.1 enforces RFC 9114 decoded field section size limits for trailers as well. It incrementally decodes QPACK entries and checks the field section size after each entry, aborting the stream if an entry causes the limit to be exceeded.

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Published Date :

June 4, 2026, 5:43 p.m.

Last Modified :

June 4, 2026, 5:43 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

No

Source :

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Affected Products

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Solution
Update quic-go to version 0.59.1 or later to enforce decoded field section size limits.
  • Update quic-go to version 0.59.1.
  • Ensure RFC 9114 decoded field section size limits are enforced.
  • Validate trailer size limits.

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