CVE-2026-21438

Summary

webtransport-go is an implementation of the WebTransport protocol. Prior to 0.10.0, an attacker can cause unbounded memory consumption repeatedly creating and closing many WebTransport streams. Closed streams were not removed from an internal session map, preventing garbage collection of their resources. This vulnerability is fixed in v0.10.0.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
quic-gowebtransport-go< 0.10.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-401: CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
  • CWE-459: CWE-459: Incomplete Cleanup

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References