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ubuntu-cve-2026-61544

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2026-09-17 00:00

Modified

2026-09-17 00:00

Summary

Details

libp2p-rust is the official Rust language implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 0.13.1, libp2p-quic could panic during an inbound QUIC handshake when a remote peer presented a valid short-lived libp2p TLS certificate and delayed the final TLS 1.3 handshake fragment until after the certificate expired. In the Quinn post-handshake upgrade path, transports/quic/src/connection/connecting.rs called libp2p_tls::certificate::parse a second time in remote_peer_id and used expect on the result. The repeated wall-clock validity check could reject the now-expired certificate, causing the expect call to terminate any application exposing an affected libp2p-quic listener. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.13.1.

Severity

8.2 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-61544	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-61544	REPORT
	https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/212f…	REPORT
	https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/e8f3…	REPORT
	https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/6525	REPORT
	https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/security/ad…	REPORT

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            "binary_name": "librust-libp2p-identity-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.2.13+ds-1"
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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-61544",
  "modified": "2026-09-17T00:00:00Z",
  "published": "2026-09-17T00:00:00Z",
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  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N",
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}

CVE-2026-61544 (GCVE-0-2026-61544)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-15 19:46 – Updated: 2026-09-17 16:48

Title

libp2p-quic: Remote panic via certificate expiry race during QUIC handshake

Summary

Severity

8.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-17 16:47 UTC

CWE

CWE-248 - Uncaught Exception

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/security/ad…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/6525	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/212f…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/e8f3…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
libp2p	rust-libp2p	Affected: < 0.13.1

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