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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-57497 EUVD-2026-77618GHSA-g35j-m5xg-vh3qGO-2026-6099

webtransport-go: Memory Exhaustion Attack due to Buffering of Unknown Capsules

Published Sep 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. Prior to 0.11.1, Session.parseNextCapsule() in session.go skips an unknown WebTransport capsule on the HTTP/3 request stream by calling io.ReadAll on the capsule reader, retaining the complete declared capsule body in memory. A malicious peer can send a large unknown capsule and cause a client or server to allocate memory for the full payload; QUIC flow control does not bound the total retained allocation because reading advances the flow-control window while the received bytes remain in memory. The resulting memory and resource exhaustion can disrupt or crash the affected process. This issue is fixed in version 0.11.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
quic-go webtransport-go < 0.11.1 —

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
SLES for SAP 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
SLES 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:23625-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260827T195228-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21761-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling ipfs-cluster 1.1.6-r11 —
Wolfi rolling k3s +1 1.36.2.1-r8 —
Wolfi rolling k3s-1.32 +1 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling k3s-1.34 +1 1.34.9.1-r7 —
Wolfi rolling k3s-1.35 +1 1.35.6.1-r7 —
Wolfi rolling kubo 0.42.0-r7 —
Wolfi rolling kubo-compat 0.43.1-r0 —
Wolfi rolling spegel 0.7.4-r4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/quic-go/webtransport-go < 0.11.1 0.11.1 GHSA-g35j-m5xg-vh3q

Advisories 2

References