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libp2p-quic: Remote panic via certificate expiry race during QUIC handshake

Published Sep 15, 2026

Description

libp2p-rust is the official Rust language implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 0.13.1, libp2p-quic could panic during an inbound QUIC handshake when a remote peer presented a valid short-lived libp2p TLS certificate and delayed the final TLS 1.3 handshake fragment until after the certificate expired. In the Quinn post-handshake upgrade path, transports/quic/src/connection/connecting.rs called libp2p_tls::certificate::parse a second time in remote_peer_id and used expect on the result. The repeated wall-clock validity check could reject the now-expired certificate, causing the expect call to terminate any application exposing an affected libp2p-quic listener. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.13.1.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published Sep 15, 2026
Updated Sep 17, 2026
Reserved Jul 10, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Sep 17, 2026
NVD
Status Received
Modified Sep 17, 2026
Red Hat
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ENISA EUVD
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GHSA-5HQ8-QHWW-JM7Q