vulnerability / NVI-00015079 / Revision 1
QTINeon has unauthenticated relay-to-host amplification via unbounded RECONNECT_REQUEST forwarding
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8.6 high
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02 / Applicability
The affected context
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com.quietterminal:qti-neon
source listed= 1.0.0
### Impact The relay's reconnect handler forwards every `RECONNECT_REQUEST` to the host without deduplication or a size cap on the `pendingReconnects` map, unlike the connect flow which guards against this with `maxPendingConnections`. An unauthenticated attacker who knows a valid session ID can send `RECONNECT_REQUEST` packets from many spoofed source addresses; each packet that passes the session lookup is forwarded to the host as a new reconnect attempt. Because the per-source rate limiter assigns a fresh token bucket to each spoofed IP, it provides no protection. The host receives one forwarded packet per spoofed source per cleanup cycle, making the relay an amplification vector for denial-of-service against the host. The host's real address is never exposed to clients by design, so this is the primary viable DoS path against it. A secondary issue: once more than `maxRateLimiters` spoofed IPs are seen, `performCleanup` calls `rateLimiters.clear()`, resetting rate limit state for all sources including legitimate ones. Affected: `NeonRelay` in all three implementations (Java, Python, TypeScript). ### Patches Not yet patched. Fix consists of three changes to handleReconnectReque
qti-neon
source listed= 1.0.0
### Impact The relay's reconnect handler forwards every `RECONNECT_REQUEST` to the host without deduplication or a size cap on the `pendingReconnects` map, unlike the connect flow which guards against this with `maxPendingConnections`. An unauthenticated attacker who knows a valid session ID can send `RECONNECT_REQUEST` packets from many spoofed source addresses; each packet that passes the session lookup is forwarded to the host as a new reconnect attempt. Because the per-source rate limiter assigns a fresh token bucket to each spoofed IP, it provides no protection. The host receives one forwarded packet per spoofed source per cleanup cycle, making the relay an amplification vector for denial-of-service against the host. The host's real address is never exposed to clients by design, so this is the primary viable DoS path against it. A secondary issue: once more than `maxRateLimiters` spoofed IPs are seen, `performCleanup` calls `rateLimiters.clear()`, resetting rate limit state for all sources including legitimate ones. Affected: `NeonRelay` in all three implementations (Java, Python, TypeScript). ### Patches Not yet patched. Fix consists of three changes to handleReconnectReque
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-85rg-p3fr-xc2f ↗
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