CVE 5.3 MEDIUM

webtransport-go affected by Memory Exhaustion Attack due to Missing Length Check in WT_CLOSE_SESSION Capsule_CVE-2026-21434

5.3 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. From 0.3.0 to 0.9.0, an attacker can cause excessive memory consumption in webtransport-go's session implementation by sending a WT_CLOSE_SESSION capsule containing an excessively large Application Error Message. The implementation does not enforce the draft-mandated limit of 1024 bytes on this field, allowing a peer to send an arbitrarily large message payload that is fully read and stored in memory. This allows an attacker to consume an arbitrary amount of memory. The attacker must transmit the full payload to achieve the memory consumption, but the lack of any upper bound makes large-scale attacks feasible given sufficient bandwidth. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.0.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-21434
Source GitHub_M
Published Feb 12, 2026 at 18:18
Modified Feb 12, 2026 at 18:45

Affected Product

Vendor quic-go
Product webtransport-go
Version < 0.10.0
Affected Versions quic-go webtransport-go < 0.10.0

CWE Classification

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