CVE-2026-44436

Quicly is an IETF QUIC protocol implementation intended primarily for use within the H2O HTTP server. Prior to commit 8b178e6, Quicly is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack through connection state corruption. In QUIC Invariants, the maximum length of a Connection ID is 255 bytes, while QUIC version 1 further restricts the maximum to 20 bytes. Quicly implements QUIC version 1 and therefore its CID buffers are limited to 20 bytes. However, to be able to respond to unknown versions of QUIC, its packet decoder accepts Connection IDs of up to 255 bytes. As its CID buffers are merely 20 bytes long, Quicly must reject QUIC version 1 packets with Connection IDs longer than that. The command line tool bundled with Quicly has had that check, however the library itself lacked such enforcement. As a consequence, when used by applications that lack their own enforcement, the connection state becoming inconsistent to buffer overrun. Fortunately, the overflow stops within the allocated chunk of memory, but nevertheless, the bug leads to assertion failures. This issue has been fixed by commit 8b178e6.
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:h2o:quicly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

21 Jul 2026, 19:25

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time H2o quicly
H2o
References () https://github.com/h2o/quicly/commit/8b178e692c51a3b1031612ef89f03a53aac63c15 - () https://github.com/h2o/quicly/commit/8b178e692c51a3b1031612ef89f03a53aac63c15 - Patch
References () https://github.com/h2o/quicly/security/advisories/GHSA-v55w-59qx-2v78 - () https://github.com/h2o/quicly/security/advisories/GHSA-v55w-59qx-2v78 - Third Party Advisory
CPE cpe:2.3:a:h2o:quicly:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

16 Jul 2026, 23:16

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-07-16 23:16

Updated : 2026-07-21 19:25


NVD link : CVE-2026-44436

Mitre link : CVE-2026-44436

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-44436


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Products Affected

h2o

  • quicly
CWE
CWE-120

Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write