Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting openssl package, versions [3.4.0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.53% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENSSL-17277506
  • published10 Jun 2026
  • disclosed9 Jun 2026
  • creditAbhinav Agarwal

Introduced: 9 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-34183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the QUIC stack, when flooded with PATH_CHALLENGE frames. A malicious remote peer can exhaust heap memory and terminate a QUIC client or server.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1