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Description

Issue summary: The OpenSSL QUIC server, when configured to not preform address
validation, can be forced to count incoming packets multiple times in its
unvalidated credit computation, leading to a violation of the RFC 9000
unvalidated connection amplification limit of 3 times the amount of data
received.

Impact summary: A remote attacker able to spoof packets to a server using the
OpenSSL QUIC implementation might use the server for an amplification of
a DDoS attack.

CWE: CWE-440: Expected Behavior Violation

Description: OpenSSL's QUIC stack, when operating as a server, enforces client
address validation (RFC 9000, Section 8), to confirm the peer address is not
used for a traffic amplification attack. If this feature is disabled on the
server, the QUIC stack limits the amount of server data that can be sent to 3
times the amount of data received from the peer address, until such time as the
TLS handshake is completed.

The OpenSSL QUIC server, when operating in non-validation mode, adds the
length of the whole datagram received to the unvalidated credit limit when
processing each QUIC packet in the datagram. A remote peer may,
after establishing a connection with an initial client hello frame, send a
subsequent datagram containing multiple QUIC packets, leading the server to
account the entire datagram length for each packet in the datagram, resulting
in the server believing that the peer has sent more data than it actually has,
thereby violating the 3x amplification limit mandated by the RFC.

FIPS impact: no
As the QUIC stack lives outside the FIPS module boundary, no FIPS modules
are affected by this CVE.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenSSL OpenSSL 4.0.0 – < 4.0.3, 3.6.0 – < 3.6.5, 3.5.0 – < 3.5.9 4.0.3

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
Debian 14 openssl 3.6.5-1 —
Debian 13 openssl 3.5.7-1~deb13u3 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.6 USN-8847-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS openssl 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.16 USN-8847-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.30 USN-8847-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 openssl +10 3.5.9-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:74166, RHSA-2026:74162
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 openssl-3 3.5.0-150700.5.53.2 SUSE-SU-2026:4414-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24245-1
SLES 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24245-1
SLE Micro 6.2 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24188-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.11.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22102-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 openssl +5 1:3.5.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2026-3204

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 rust +3 No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling openssl-4.0 +2 4.0.3-r0 —

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