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Use-after-free in connection ID iterator FFI functions

Moderate
ghedo published GHSA-mh64-ph39-mrc9 Jun 19, 2026

Package

cargo quiche (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 0.20.0

Patched versions

0.29.2

Description

Impact

Cloudflare Quiche was affected by 2 use-after-free vulnerabilities in the connection ID iterator FFI functions.

The quiche_connection_id_iter_next and quiche_conn_retired_scid_next functions would return a pointer to a ConnectionId to the applications via function arguments, but the the owned ConnectionId would be dropped at the end of those functions' scope.

Only applications using those FFI functions are affected. The FFI API is disabled by default by a build-time feature flag.

quiche 0.29.2 is the earliest version containing the fix for this issue.

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

CVE ID

CVE-2026-11941

Weaknesses

Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory belongs to the code that operates on the new pointer. Learn more on MITRE.

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