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CVE-2026-54873— QUIC STREAM Fragment Metadata DoS

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Affected
OpenSSL OpenSSL
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Issue summary: QUIC process may keep memory for QUIC packet buffer for much longer period than necessary. Impact summary: Remote peer can exploit this vulnerability by sending maliciously crafted packets, making the local QUIC stack to keep the memory for pack

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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-54873

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Vulnerability Title
QUIC STREAM Fragment Metadata DoS
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Issue summary: QUIC process may keep memory for QUIC packet buffer for much longer period than necessary. Impact summary: Remote peer can exploit this vulnerability by sending maliciously crafted packets, making the local QUIC stack to keep the memory for packet buffers allocated. The time for which the memory remains allocated is entirely under the control of the potentially malicious remote peer. CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Description: To save copy operation from the packet buffer to the stream reassemble buffer the QUIC stack leaves the stream data on the packet buffer waiting to be copied to a buffer provided by the local receiving application. The QUIC stack releases a reference to the packet buffer only after the data are copied to the application buffer. This design is more efficient for legitimate data transfers but enables an attacker to allocate a lot more memory than actually required by the data kept in the receiving stream buffer. To mitigate the vulnerability, the QUIC stack now calculates and monitors memory overhead for every stream. The memory overhead for a single stream frame is calculated as a difference between the size of the whole packet that carries the stream frame and the size of the stream frame itself. The memory overhead for a single stream frame is added to the total (cumulative) memory overhead QUIC stack keeps for each stream. Once the cumulative memory overhead exceeds 64kB, the QUIC stack moves the stream frame data from the packet buffer to the stream buffer, starting with the next packet received. FIPS impact: no The FIPS module is not affected as the QUIC implementation is outside of the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
不加限制或调节的资源分配
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
OpenSSL OpenSSL 4.0.0 ~ 4.0.3 -

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Other References for CVE-2026-54873 (5)

Same Patch Batch · OpenSSL · 2026-09-29 · 14 CVEs total

CVE-2026-35189 Excessive Memory Allocation in Relative CRLDP Processing
CVE-2026-35191 QUIC Unvalidated Amplification Credit may be Over Accounted
CVE-2026-75806 Unauthenticated and Undersized DTLS 1.2 AEAD Record Causes DoS
CVE-2026-75804 QUIC Connection-Level Flow Control is Not Enforced for Streams
CVE-2026-75805 NULL Pointer Dereference in CMP Client Revocation Response Handling
CVE-2026-42772 Potential CPU DoS via O(n^2) Fragment Reassembly in QUIC
CVE-2026-54872 Timing Side-Channel in Scalar Multiplication for Non-NIST EC Curves
CVE-2026-54875 Non-Constant-Time SM2 Scalar Multiplication on ARM64 and RISC-V
CVE-2026-77696 Timing Side-Channel in SM2 Signature Generation
CVE-2026-72897 Out-of-Bounds Access After SSL_set_SSL_CTX() During a Handshake
CVE-2026-84782 DTLS Retransmits Handshake Messages From a Stale Buffer Offset
CVE-2026-84784 QUIC: Unbounded RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID Backlog
CVE-2026-84783 Use-After-Free in X.509 Extension Cache Under Concurrent Use

IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: OpenSSL
Same vendor: OpenSSL
Same weakness: CWE-770

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