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GHSA-qvqg-6rp8-4p9h

MediumCVSS 5.3 / 10
Published May 11, 2023·Last modified May 11, 2023
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

An attacker is able allocate arbitrarily many bytes in the Bitswap server by sending many WANT_BLOCK and or WANT_HAVE requests which are queued in an unbounded queue, with allocations that persist even if the connection is closed.

This affects users accepting or connecting untrusted connections such as by running in the public swarm and no pnet config. Nodes that are not publicly reachable but connects to untrusted nodes are also vulnerable to the untrusted nodes being connected to since libp2p connections are blindly bidirectional.

Patches

  • 19feb15833c6f4d6e7f1e1b132efaae96d76481d boxo update in Kubo
  • GHSA-m974-xj4j-7qv5 patches in boxo

Workarounds

Use PNET, swarm filters or resource manager allows list to block untrusted connections.

Note that using the resource manager will disrupt both client and server features because the bitswap protocol is a message based protocol mixing requests and responses.

References

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.3

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
4.9

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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