Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting litespeedtech/lsquic package, versions [,4.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LITESPEEDTECHLSQUIC-11502063
  • published7 Aug 2025
  • disclosed1 Aug 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Aug 2025

NewCVE-2025-54939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade litespeedtech/lsquic to version 4.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to improper memory management in the lsquic_engine_packet_in() function. An attacker can cause resource exhaustion by sending specially crafted packets, leading to a denial of service.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1