High severity · published Sep 15, 2026
CVE-2026-61544
libp2p-quic: Remote panic via certificate expiry race during QUIC handshake
8.2
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
libp2p-rust is the official Rust language implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 0.13.1, libp2p-quic could panic during an inbound QUIC handshake when a remote peer presented a valid short-lived libp2p TLS certificate and delayed the final TLS 1.3 handshake fragment until after the certificate expired. In the Quinn post-handshake upgrade path, transports/quic/src/connection/connecting.rs called libp2p_tls::certificate::parse a second time in remote_peer_id and used expect on the result. The repeated wall-clock validity check could reject the now-expired certificate, causing the expect call to terminate any application exposing an affected libp2p-quic listener. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.13.1.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RU
rust-libp2p · libp2p
< 0.13.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61544
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61544
github.com
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/212f3774af048e2cecfb2e6b1e08477685e52b22
github.com
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/e8f35e12c2418b04df6e9cdf036005e8aee3c7a2
github.com
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/6525
github.com
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-5hq8-qhww-jm7q
More from rust-libp2p
8.7
CVE-2026-95859
libp2p-rust: Gossipsub GRAFT topics unbounded growth
8.2
CVE-2026-35457
libp2p-rust has unbounded rendezvous DISCOVER cookies enable remote memory exhaustion
7.5
CVE-2026-35405
libp2p-rendezvous: Unlimited namespace registrations per peer enables OOM DoS on rendezvous servers
7.5
CVE-2026-33040
libp2p-rust: Gossipsub PRUNE.backoff Duration Overflow
5.9
CVE-2026-34219
libp2p-gossipsub: Gossipsub PRUNE Backoff Heartbeat Instant Overflow
