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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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-5hq8-qhww-jm7q libp2p-quic: Remote panic via certificate expiry race during QUIC handshake
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Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Libp2p
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Vendors & Products Libp2p
Libp2p rust-libp2p

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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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.
Title libp2p-quic: Remote panic via certificate expiry race during QUIC handshake
Weaknesses CWE-248
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-15T19:46:13.721Z

Reserved: 2026-07-10T16:27:03.093Z

Link: CVE-2026-61544

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-15T20:17:35.147

Modified: 2026-09-15T20:17:35.147

Link: CVE-2026-61544

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Updated: 2026-09-15T23:45:17Z

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