NRDAX-T0214 - Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine

connection_exhaustion · active · first seen 2023-01-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2023-40591: post-Hello devp2p PING (0x02) flood → unbounded goroutines → OOM (geth 1.10.0-1.12.0)

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
ethereum	geth_devp2p_ping_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	geth_devp2p_ping_flood	https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/security/advisories/GHSA-ppjg-v974-84cm ↗

references

cve: CVE-2023-40591

vendor-advisory: GHPR-algorand-go-algorand-5734

related (connection_exhaustion)

NRDAX-T0041 - Cross-Chain Peer Pool Pollution active NRDAX-T0064 - Endpoint Concurrency Cap Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0088 - GetData Request Flood active NRDAX-T0099 - Half-Open Handshake Slowloris active NRDAX-T0100 - Handshake Crypto CPU Burn active NRDAX-T0145 - Malformed HTTP Body Crash active NRDAX-T0206 - Pre-Handshake Packet Flood active NRDAX-T0225 - QUIC Control Frame Flood active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0214

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0214.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0214,
  title = {Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine (NRDAX-T0214)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0214},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0214",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine (NRDAX-T0214)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0214",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}