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CVE-2026-12523

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.29% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-07-14 · Last synced 2026-08-13

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The vulnerability affects Cloudflare's quiche implementation of HTTP/3, allowing attackers to exploit resource exhaustion through specially crafted HTTP/3 frames, leading to excessive memory allocation. This can result in denial-of-service conditions, impacting the availability of services relying on quiche. Organizations using affected versions of Exchange should prioritize upgrading to quiche 0.29.3 to mitigate this high-severity risk.

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CVE
CVE-2026-12523
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.29%
Exchange

Original NVD Description

Summary Cloudflare quiche's HTTP/3 layer was discovered to be vulnerable to resource exhaustion (i.e., memory) by means of specially crafted HTTP/3 frames. Impact HTTP/3 defines multiple frame types to support HTTP message exchanges and connection management. Each frame has a length and a payload whose length depends on the frame type. quiche was found to be vulnerable when parsing some frame types to pre-allocating memory based on the declared length. An attacker would not need to send the number of declared bytes to trigger this issue. In addition, quiche was found to not apply QPACK decompression limits correctly. This could allow an attacker to send specially crafted HEADERS frames that would cause more memory commitment than otherwise advertised by MAX_FIELD_SECTION_SIZE (configured by set_max_field_section_size()). Mitigation: * Users are requested to upgrade to quiche 0.29.3 which is the earliest version containing the fix for this issue. Credits: Disclosed responsibly by Sébastien Féry

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