NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting h2o/h2o package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-H2OH2O-18016329
  • published19 Jul 2026
  • disclosed17 Jul 2026
  • creditNiklas Oberender

Introduced: 17 Jul 2026

CVE-2026-44452  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (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 NULL Pointer Dereference in the ClientHello message handling when receiving a zero-length SNI extension. An attacker can cause a segmentation violation and disrupt service availability by sending a specially crafted TLS or QUIC handshake containing a zero-length SNI extension.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1