CVE-2024-24990 (GCVE-0-2024-24990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-14 16:30 – Updated: 2025-05-08 15:19
VLAI
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 15:18 UTC
CWE
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
F5 NGINX Plus Affected: R31 , < R31 P1 (custom)
Affected: R30 , < R30 P2 (custom)
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F5 NGINX Open Source Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.4 (semver)
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Date Public
2024-02-14 15:00
Credits
F5
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