CVE-2022-23487CWE-400

libp2p denial of service vulnerability from lack of resource management

High · published December 7, 2022

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
53.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00734 · 53.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2022-12-07T20:05Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 DEC 20:05Z
    libp2p denial of service vulnerability from lack of resource management
    cvelistv5