CVE-2026-25667

high

Description

ASP.NET Core Kestrel in Microsoft .NET 8.0 before 8.0.22 and .NET 9.0 before 9.0.11 allows a remote attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption by sending a crafted QUIC packet, because of an incorrect exit condition for HTTP/3 Encoder/Decoder stream processing.

References

https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore/commit/96ccc40a0e095424b19506e8268b9b1a3e23d6a7#diff-667d5b3693f93a0f706ab211428998b210862f9b885d917104d2013118312626

https://github.com/IsaJafarov/Q3Fuzz

https://github.com/IsaJafarov/Kestrel-DoS

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-19

Updated: 2026-04-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.14503