CVE-2026-35405 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Rust-libp2p
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 83.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
Latest updateApr 4
PublishedApr 7
Description
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 i…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6