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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-21434 EUVD-2026-6715GHSA-g6x7-jq8p-6q9qGO-2026-4485

webtransport-go affected by Memory Exhaustion Attack due to Missing Length Check in WT_CLOSE_SESSION Capsule

Published Feb 12, 2026 · Updated Feb 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. From 0.3.0 to 0.9.0, an attacker can cause excessive memory consumption in webtransport-go's session implementation by sending a WT_CLOSE_SESSION capsule containing an excessively large Application Error Message. The implementation does not enforce the draft-mandated limit of 1024 bytes on this field, allowing a peer to send an arbitrarily large message payload that is fully read and stored in memory. This allows an attacker to consume an arbitrary amount of memory. The attacker must transmit the full payload to achieve the memory consumption, but the lack of any upper bound makes large-scale attacks feasible given sufficient bandwidth. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
quic-go webtransport-go < 0.10.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260226T182644-150000.1.149.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0757-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling ipfs-cluster 1.1.5-r5 —
Wolfi rolling k3s +1 1.35.1.1-r1 —
Wolfi rolling k3s-1.32 +1 1.32.13.1-r2 —
Wolfi rolling kubo 0.39.0-r5 —
Wolfi rolling spegel 0.6.0-r4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/marten-seemann/webtransport-go >= 0.3.0 — GO-2026-4485
Go github.com/quic-go/webtransport-go >= 0.3.0, < 0.10.0 0.10.0 GHSA-g6x7-jq8p-6q9q
Go github.com/quic-go/webtransport-go < 0.10.0 0.10.0 GO-2026-4485

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