CVE-2026-25667 Denial of service in n/a

High 7.5 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause excessive CPU consumption in ASP.NET Core Kestrel via crafted QUIC packets, leading to denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2026-25667?

CVE-2026-25667 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft .Net, published on 19 Mar 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

ASP.NET Core Kestrel in Microsoft .NET 8.0 before 8.0.22 and .NET 9.0 before 9.0.11 allows a remote attacker to cause excessive CPU consumption by sending a crafted QUIC packet, because of an incorrect exit condition for HTTP/3 Encoder/Decoder stream processing.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-25667?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including dotnet and dotnet-sdk. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
dotnet BitnamiFrom 8.0.08.0.22, 9.0.11
dotnet-sdk BitnamiFrom 8.0.08.0.22, 9.0.11

Products include Microsoft .Net.

How do I fix CVE-2026-25667?

Upgrade dotnet to a fixed version for your release line: 8.0.22 or 9.0.11.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2026-25667 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-25667 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as BIT-dotnet-2026-25667, BIT-dotnet-sdk-2026-25667, GHSA-jc8w-j2q2-vwjx, MINI-4xj4-jqfh-j879, MINI-9mr2-2hf7-crmq.

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