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CVE-2026-57497
Published:July 24, 2026
Updated:August 02, 2026
Summary An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation in webtransport-go by sending an unknown WebTransport capsule with a large payload. The implementation skips unknown capsules by reading the entire capsule body into memory, instead of draining it without retaining the data. This can lead to memory exhaustion. Impact A misbehaving or malicious peer can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against webtransport-go clients or servers by triggering excessive memory allocation, potentially leading to crashes or resource exhaustion. Details WebTransport sessions use capsules on the HTTP/3 request stream. Unknown capsule types are ignored, but the capsule body still needs to be consumed before the next capsule can be parsed. webtransport-go used "io.ReadAll" when skipping unknown capsules. Since the capsule reader is only limited by the capsule's declared length, a peer could send a large unknown capsule and cause the receiver to allocate memory for the full capsule body. QUIC flow control limits buffered data, but it does not bound total allocation here, since reading the stream advances the flow control window while retaining the received bytes in memory. The Fix webtransport-go now drains unknown capsules to "io.Discard" instead of buffering them. This consumes the capsule body so parsing can continue, without retaining the payload in memory.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/quic-go/webtransport-go.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v0.1.0 <v0.11.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.11.1
github.com/quic-go/webtransport-go (GO):
Affected version(s) >=v0.0.0-20220605161545-1fcfed0aa8f2 <v0.11.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v0.11.1
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling