{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.1","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-7054","assignerOrgId":"a22f1246-ba21-4bb4-a601-ad51614c1513","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"cloudflare","dateReserved":"2025-07-03T21:30:56.005Z","datePublished":"2025-08-07T15:19:29.542Z","dateUpdated":"2025-08-07T15:52:20.008Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"affected":[{"defaultStatus":"unaffected","product":"quiche","repo":"https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche","vendor":"Cloudflare","versions":[{"lessThan":"0.24.5","status":"affected","version":"0.15.0","versionType":"semver"}]}],"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","supportingMedia":[{"base64":false,"type":"text/html","value":"<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to an infinite loop when sending packets containing RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames.</span></p><p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">QUIC connections possess a set of connection identifiers (IDs); see</span> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-5.1\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(244, 249, 250);\">Section 5.1 of RFC 9000</span></a><span style=\"background-color: rgb(244, 249, 250);\">. </span><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Once the QUIC handshake completes, a local endpoint is responsible for issuing and retiring Connection IDs that are used by the remote peer to populate the Destination Connection ID field in packets sent from remote to local. Each Connection ID has a sequence number to ensure synchronization between peers.</span></p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by first completing a handshake and then sending a specially-crafted set of frames that trigger a connection ID retirement in the victim. When the victim attempts to send a packet containing RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames, </span><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-19.6\"><span style=\"background-color: rgb(244, 249, 250);\">Section 19.16 of RFC 9000</span></a><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"> requires that the sequence number of the retired connection ID must not be the same as the sequence number of the connection ID used by the packet. In other words, a packet cannot contain a frame that retires itself. In scenarios such as path migration, it is possible for there to be multiple active paths with different active connection IDs that could be used to retire each other. The exploit triggered an unintentional behaviour of a quiche design feature that supports retirement across paths while maintaining full connection ID synchronization, leading to an infinite loop.</span><p>This issue affects quiche: from 0.15.0 before 0.24.5.</p>"}],"value":"Cloudflare quiche was discovered to be vulnerable to an infinite loop when sending packets containing RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames.\n\nQUIC connections possess a set of connection identifiers (IDs); see  Section 5.1 of RFC 9000 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-5.1 . Once the QUIC handshake completes, a local endpoint is responsible for issuing and retiring Connection IDs that are used by the remote peer to populate the Destination Connection ID field in packets sent from remote to local. Each Connection ID has a sequence number to ensure synchronization between peers.\n\nAn unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by first completing a handshake and then sending a specially-crafted set of frames that trigger a connection ID retirement in the victim. When the victim attempts to send a packet containing RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frames,  Section 19.16 of RFC 9000 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9000#section-19.6  requires that the sequence number of the retired connection ID must not be the same as the sequence number of the connection ID used by the packet. In other words, a packet cannot contain a frame that retires itself. In scenarios such as path migration, it is possible for there to be multiple active paths with different active connection IDs that could be used to retire each other. The exploit triggered an unintentional behaviour of a quiche design feature that supports retirement across paths while maintaining full connection ID synchronization, leading to an infinite loop.This issue affects quiche: from 0.15.0 before 0.24.5."}],"metrics":[{"cvssV4_0":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"NOT_DEFINED","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","vulnIntegrityImpact":"NONE","vulnerabilityResponseEffort":"NOT_DEFINED"},"format":"CVSS","scenarios":[{"lang":"en","value":"GENERAL"}]}],"problemTypes":[{"descriptions":[{"cweId":"CWE-835","description":"CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}]}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"a22f1246-ba21-4bb4-a601-ad51614c1513","shortName":"cloudflare","dateUpdated":"2025-08-07T15:19:29.542Z"},"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/cloudflare/quiche/security/advisories/GHSA-m3hh-f9gh-74c2"}],"source":{"discovery":"UNKNOWN"},"title":"Infinite loop triggered by connection ID retirement","x_generator":{"engine":"Vulnogram 0.2.0"}},"adp":[{"metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"timestamp":"2025-08-07T15:52:05.471684Z","id":"CVE-2025-7054","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"yes"},{"Technical Impact":"partial"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}}}],"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","providerMetadata":{"orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","shortName":"CISA-ADP","dateUpdated":"2025-08-07T15:52:20.008Z"}}]}}