Medium severity · published Mar 10, 2026
CVE-2026-31812
Quinn affected by unauthenticated remote DoS via panic in QUIC transport parameter parsing
5.3
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Quinn is a pure-Rust, async-compatible implementation of the IETF QUIC transport protocol. Prior to 0.11.14, a remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a denial of service in applications using vulnerable quinn versions by sending a crafted QUIC Initial packet containing malformed quic_transport_parameters. In quinn-proto parsing logic, attacker-controlled varints are decoded with unwrap(), so truncated encodings cause Err(UnexpectedEnd) and panic. This is reachable over the network with a single packet and no prior trust or authentication. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.11.14.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
QU
quinn · quinn-rs
< 0.11.14 · source: vendor
CC
Confidential Compute Attestation · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
LS
Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
LS
Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift 6.4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
RH
Red Hat Trusted Artifact Signer 1.3 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31812
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31812
github.com
https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/security/advisories/GHSA-6xvm-j4wr-6v98
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13545
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19712
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22862
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5459
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-31812
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