Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
go-libp2p is the offical libp2p implementation in the Go programming language. Version 0.18.0 and older of go-libp2p is 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 …