CVE-2025-64702: quic-go HTTP/3 QPACK Header Expansion DoS
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An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation in quic-go’s HTTP/3 client and server implementations by sending a QPACK-encoded HEADERS frame that decodes into a large header field section (many unique header names and/or large values). The implementation builds an http.Header (used on the http.Request and http.Response, respectively), while only enforcing limits on the size of the (QPACK-compressed) HEADERS frame, but not on the decoded header, leading to memory exhaustion.
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