Medium severity · published Jun 19, 2026
CVE-2026-11941
Use-after-free in connection ID iterator and FFI functions
5.6
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Cloudflare Quiche was affected by 2 use-after-free vulnerabilities in the connection ID iterator FFI functions.
The “quiche_connection_id_iter_next” and “quiche_conn_retired_scid_next” functions would return a pointer to a “ConnectionId” to the applications via function arguments, but the owned “ConnectionId” would be dropped at the end of those functions' scope.
Only applications using those FFI functions are affected. The FFI API is disabled by default by a build-time feature flag.
Impact
If unpatched, an application calling the affected FFI functions will dereference freed memory. The most likely outcome is undefined behavior leading to a process crash (denial of service). Depending on allocator state, the read may also return adjacent heap contents, resulting in limited information disclosure or incorrect connection identifier handling.
Mitigation
Users are requested to upgrade to quiche 0.29.2 which is the earliest version containing the fix for this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 16% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
QU
Quiche · Cloudflare
0.20.0 through 0.29.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-11941
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-11941
github.com
https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-mh64-ph39-mrc9
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