CVE-2020-24944

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2021-02-08 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

picoquic (before 3rd of July 2020) allows attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a crafted QUIC frame, related to the picoquic_decode_frames and picoquic_decode_stream_frame functions and epoch==3.

Affected products

Privateoctopus Picoquic: before 2020-07-03 — fixed in 2020-07-03

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Privateoctopus Picoquic 2020-07-03. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/private-octopus/picoquic/issues/969
https://github.com/private-octopus/picoquic/issues/969

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