Upstream information

CVE-2026-40898 at MITRE

Description

quic-go is an implementation of the QUIC protocol in Go. Prior to version 0.59.1, an attacker can cause excessive memory allocation in quic-go's HTTP/3 client and server implementations by sending a QPACK-encoded HEADERS frame that decodes into a large trailer field section with many unique field names and/or large values. The implementation builds an `http.Header` for the corresponding `http.Request` or `http.Response`, while only enforcing limits on the size of the QPACK-compressed HEADERS frame, not on the decoded field section. This can lead to memory exhaustion. This is very similar to CVE-2025-64702. The difference is that this issue uses HTTP trailers, rather than HTTP headers, as the attack vector. A misbehaving or malicious peer can cause a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against quic-go's HTTP/3 servers or clients by triggering excessive memory allocation, potentially leading to crashes or resource exhaustion. This affects both servers and clients due to symmetric header construction. Version 0.59.1 enforces RFC 9114 decoded field section size limits for trailers as well. It incrementally decodes QPACK entries and checks the field section size after each entry, aborting the stream if an entry causes the limit to be exceeded.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Pending

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (GitHub) National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 5.3 7.5 5.3
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network Network Network
Attack Complexity Low Low Low
Privileges Required None None None
User Interaction None None None
Scope Unchanged Unchanged Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None None None
Integrity Impact None None None
Availability Impact Low High Low
CVSSv3 Version 3.1 3.1 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1271244 [NEW]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Manager Client Tools 15 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Multi-Linux Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
openSUSE Leap 16.0 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes.
SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.3 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP5 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Package Hub 15 SP6 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.1 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
SUSE Manager Proxy Module 4.2 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.3 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.4 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.5 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
openSUSE Leap 15.6 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
Products at an unknown state of their lifecycle.
SUSE Multi Linux Manager Tools SLE-15 golang-github-prometheus-prometheus Affected
Container Status
ses/7.1/ceph/prometheus-server
ses/7/ceph/prometheus-server
suse/multi-linux-manager/5.2/x86_64/monitoring-prometheus
golang-github-prometheus-prometheusAffected


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jul 10 17:34:30 2026
CVE page last modified: Fri Jul 10 17:34:30 2026