7.5

CVE-2026-34183: Unbounded Memory Growth in the QUIC PATH_CHALLENGE Handler

Analyzed
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2026-34183UBUNTU-CVE-2026-34183DEBIAN-CVE-2026-34183
Published 09-06-2026Last modified 10-06-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-34183 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in openssl. EPSS estimates a 1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.05%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 18 · Related 7
MGASA-2026-0253OPENSUSE-SU-2026:11023-1OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21005-1RHSA-2026:25237RHSA-2026:25239RHSA-2026:42825

Timeline

  1. 09-06-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 10-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Issue summary: Remote peer may exhaust heap memory of the QUIC server or client by flooding it with packets containing PATH_CHALLENGE frames. Impact summary: A malicious remote peer can cause an unbounded memory allocation which can lead to an abnormal termination of the application acting as a QUIC client or server and a Denial of Service. A remote peer may exhaust heap memory by flooding the local QUIC stack with PATH_CHALLENGE frames. The local QUIC stack allocates a PATH_RESPONSE frame for every PATH_CHALLENGE it receives. The allocated PATH_RESPONSE frame gets freed only when the remote peer acknowledges reception of the PATH_RESPONSE frame which will not be done by a malicious peer. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue. The QUIC stack is outside of OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.05%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

64%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.05% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard14 products
  • libcrypto3< 3.6.3-r0
  • libcrypto3-2.34< 3.6.3-r0
  • openssl< 3.6.3-r0
  • openssl-3.5< 3.5.7-r0
  • openssl-3.5-libcrypto< 3.5.7-r0
Wolfi5 products
  • libcrypto3< 3.6.3-r0
  • openssl< 3.6.3-r0
  • openssl-4.0< 4.0.1-r0
  • openssl-4.0-libcrypto< 4.0.1-r0
  • openssl-4.0-libssl< 4.0.1-r0
Ubuntu4 products
  • edk2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • edk2-hweAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • nodejsAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • openssl< 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 | < 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2
Alpine1 product
  • openssl≥ 3.4.0, < 3.3.7-r1 | ≥ 3.4.0, < 3.5.7-r0
Debian1 product
  • openssl< 3.5.6-1~deb13u2 | < 3.6.3-1
Openssl1 product
  • openssl≥ 4.0.0, < 4.0.1 | ≥ 3.4.0, < 3.4.6 | ≥ 3.5.0, < 3.5.7 | ≥ 3.6.0, < 3.6.3 | 4.0.0

6 vendors · 26 products

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