# CVE-2026-61544

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-61544
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 8.2 (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)
- **CWE:** CWE-248
- **Published:** Sep 15, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 17, 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.

## Affected Products

- libp2p — rust-libp2p (< 0.13.1)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-5hq8-qhww-jm7q)
- [CNA](https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/pull/6525)
- [CNA](https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/212f3774af048e2cecfb2e6b1e08477685e52b22)
- [CNA](https://github.com/libp2p/rust-libp2p/commit/e8f35e12c2418b04df6e9cdf036005e8aee3c7a2)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.23%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 14.1

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-18._