CVE-2024-53259

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Published 2024-12-02 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. An off-path attacker can inject an ICMP Packet Too Large packet. Since affected quic-go versions used IP_PMTUDISC_DO, the kernel would then return a "message too large" error on sendmsg, i.e. when quic-go attempts to send a packet that exceeds the MTU claimed in that ICMP packet. By setting this value to smaller than 1200 bytes (the minimum MTU for QUIC), the attacker can disrupt a QUIC connection. Crucially, this can be done after completion of the handshake, thereby circumventing any TCP fallback that might be implemented on the application layer (for example, many browsers fall back to HTTP over TCP if they're unable to establish a QUIC connection). The attacker needs to at least know the client's IP and port tuple to mount an attack. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.48.2.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`0.50.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`0.50.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`0.50.0-1`
bullseye	Affected	—
bookworm	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/quic-go/quic-go	`<0.48.2`	`0.48.2`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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