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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-06-04 09:50

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

NGINX HTTP/3 QUIC vulnerability

Details

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate.

Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html .

NOTE: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

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CVE-2024-24989 (GCVE-0-2024-24989)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-14 16:30 – Updated: 2025-05-12 15:07

Title

NGINX HTTP/3 QUIC vulnerability

Summary

When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate. Note: The HTTP/3 QUIC module is not enabled by default and is considered experimental. For more information, refer to Support for QUIC and HTTP/3 https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html . NOTE: Software versions which have reached End of Technical Support (EoTS) are not evaluated

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-08 15:42 UTC

CWE

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Assigner

f5 mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000138444	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/30/4

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
F5	NGINX Plus	Affected: R31 , < R31 P1 (custom)
F5	NGINX Open Source	Affected: 1.25.3 , < 1.25.4 (semver)

Date Public

2024-02-14 15:00

Credits

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