CVE-2026-35405
libp2p-rendezvous: Unlimited namespace registrations per peer enables OOM DoS on rendezvous servers
Vexday Risk Score
21Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 7.5EPSS 0.4%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
07 Apr 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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 in 0.17.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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