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CVE-2026-35405GHSA-CQFX-GF56-8X59

libp2p-rendezvous: Unlimited namespace registrations per peer enables OOM DoS on rendezvous servers

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.17.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

libp2p-rust is the official rust language Implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 0.17.1, libp2p-rendezvous server has no limit on how many namespaces a single peer can register. A malicious peer can just keep registering unique namespaces in a loop and the server happily accepts every single one allocating memory for each registration with no pushback. Keep doing this long enough (or with multiple sybil peers) and the server process gets OOM killed. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.17.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • libp2p rust-libp2p

    fixed in 0.17.1

  • libp2p-rendezvouscrates.io

    fixed in 0.17.1

References 1

GitHub · libp2p/rust-libp2p