Medium
Security advisory
When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed HTTP/3 requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate or cause other potential impact. This attack requires that a request be specifically timed during the connection draining process, which the attacker has no visibility and limited influence over.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-31079
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:12 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
When NGINX Plus or NGINX OSS are configured to use the HTTP/3 QUIC module, undisclosed HTTP/3 requests can cause NGINX worker processes to terminate or cause other potential impact. This attack requires that a request be specifically timed during the connection draining process, which the attacker has no visibility and limited influence over.
osv:CVE-2024-31079
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/R7RPLWC35WHEUFCGKNFG62ESNID25TEZ/",
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