Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to an infinite loop when sending packets containing RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames.
QUIC connections possess a set of connection identifiers (IDs); see Section 5.1 of RFC 9000 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-5.1 . Once the QUIC handshake completes, a local endpoint is responsible for issuing and retiring Connection IDs that are used by the remote peer to populate the Destination Connection ID field in packets sent from remote to local. Each Connection ID has a sequence number to ensure synchronization between peers.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by first completing a handshake and then sending a specially-crafted set of frames that trigger a connection ID retirement in the victim. When the victim attempts to send a packet containing RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames, Section 19.16 of RFC 9000 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-19.6 requires that the sequence number of the retired connection ID must not be the same as the sequence number of the connection ID used by the packet. In other words, a packet cannot contain a frame that retires itself. In scenarios such as path migration, it is possible for there to be multiple active paths with different active connection IDs that could be used to retire each other. The exploit triggered an unintentional behaviour of a quiche design feature that supports retirement across paths while maintaining full connection ID synchronization, leading to an infinite loop.This issue affects quiche: from 0.15.0 before 0.24.5.
References
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https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-m3hh-f9gh-74c2 | Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
14 Aug 2025, 19:58
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CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.5 |
CPE | cpe:2.3:a:cloudflare:quiche:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:* | |
References | () https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-m3hh-f9gh-74c2 - Third Party Advisory | |
First Time |
Cloudflare quiche
Cloudflare |
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Summary |
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07 Aug 2025, 16:15
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New CVE |
Information
Published : 2025-08-07 16:15
Updated : 2025-08-14 19:58
NVD link : CVE-2025-7054
Mitre link : CVE-2025-7054
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-7054
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Products Affected
cloudflare
- quiche
CWE
CWE-835
Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')