CVE-2022-23487
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2022-12-07T20:05:35.319Z
State: PUBLISHED
title: libp2p denial of service vulnerability from lack of resource management
problemTypes: descriptions: cweId: CWE-400
description: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
type: CWE
metrics: cvssV3_1: attackComplexity: LOW
attackVector: NETWORK
availabilityImpact: HIGH
baseScore: 7.5
baseSeverity: HIGH
confidentialityImpact: NONE
integrityImpact: NONE
privilegesRequired: NONE
scope: UNCHANGED
userInteraction: NONE
vectorString: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
version: 3.1
affected: vendor: libp2p
product: js-libp2p
versions: version: < 0.38.0
status: affected
descriptions: value: js-libp2p is the official javascript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Versions older than `v0.38.0` of js-libp2p are vulnerable to targeted resource exhaustion attacks. These attacks target libp2p’s connection, stream, peer, and memory management. An attacker can cause the allocation of large amounts of memory, ultimately leading to the process getting killed by the host’s operating system. While a connection manager tasked with keeping the number of connections within manageable limits has been part of js-libp2p, this component was designed to handle the regular churn of peers, not a targeted resource exhaustion attack. Users are advised to update their js-libp2p dependency to `v0.38.0` or greater. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.
source: advisory: GHSA-f44q-634c-jvwv
discovery: UNKNOWN