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rustls network-reachable panic in `Acceptor::accept`GHSA-qg5g-gv98-5ffh

GHSA-qg5g-gv98-5ffh is a CWE-248 vulnerability in rustls. A fix is available for rustls — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Also known asCVE-2024-11738RUSTSEC-2024-0399
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 9, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

Proof-of-concept exploit code exists

  • CISA’s SSVC triage found public proof-of-concept exploit code for this CVE, though no confirmed active exploitation.
  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-qg5g-gv98-5ffh.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.7%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs55th percentile — riskier than 55% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.41%0.82%1.23%0.2%0.7%May 26Sep 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected
🦀rustls

Real-time download stats are indexed for npm and PyPI packages. This vulnerability affects crates.io packages — download data is not available via public APIs for these ecosystems.

Description

A bug introduced in rustls 0.23.13 leads to a panic if the received TLS ClientHello is fragmented. Only servers that use rustls::server::Acceptor::accept() are affected.

Servers that use tokio-rustls's LazyConfigAcceptor API are affected.

Servers that use tokio-rustls's TlsAcceptor API are not affected.

Servers that use rustls-ffi's rustls_acceptor_accept API are affected.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
🦀crates.iorustls≥ 0.23.13&&< 0.23.180.23.18cargo update -p rustls --precise 0.23.18

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
rustlsrustls_project
1 version
0.23.13

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for rustls, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update rustls to 0.23.18 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-qg5g-gv98-5ffh is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    If you can't upgrade right away: gate or disable the affected feature, validate untrusted input at the boundary, and avoid passing attacker-controlled data into the vulnerable path. O3's runtime protection blocks exploitation in production as an interim safeguard until the upgrade lands.

Frequently Asked Questions

A bug introduced in rustls 0.23.13 leads to a panic if the received TLS ClientHello is fragmented. Only servers that use `rustls::server::Acceptor::accept()` are affected. Servers that use `tokio-rustls`'s `LazyConfigAcceptor` API are affected. Servers that use `tokio-rustls`'s `TlsAcceptor` API are not affected. Servers that use `rustls-ffi`'s `rustls_acceptor_accept` API are affected.
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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rustls network-reachable panic in `Acceptor::accept`