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CVE-2026-44433: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in h2o quicly

0
Medium
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-44433cvecve-2026-44433cwe-770cwe-400
Published: 07/16/2026 (07/16/2026, 22:23:17 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: h2o
Product: quicly

Description

Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit 8b178e6, an adversarial peer could send a STREAM frame carrying just one byte at the largest offset being permitted to obtain additional flow control credit, which under certain circumstances could lead to a Denial of Service. Assuming the application prepares a receive buffer for storing all data that arrive out-of-order, up to the largest offset being received, this behavior could lead to the application allocating large amount of memory with the peer sending only a handful of packets, resulting in memory exhaustion. In addition to the receive buffer allocation strategy, the severity of this vulnerability depends on how the application controls the stream concurrency. In case of the H2O HTTP server, under its default setting, this bug increases the maximum amount of memory allocated per connection by about 4 times. This issue has been fixed by commit 8b178e6.

CVSS v3.1

Score 5.3medium

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
GitHub_M
Date Reserved
2026-05-06T14:40:00.954Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null

Threat ID: 6a595c2d68715ace43d0b041

Added to database: 07/16/2026, 22:33:17 UTC

Last updated: 07/16/2026, 22:33:17 UTC

Views: 1

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