NRDAX-T0249 - Recursive Message Deserialisation Stack Overflow

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provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

GHSA-8wcc-m6j2-qxvm (ASA-2024-0012/0013): deeply-nested protobuf Any → TxDecoder/UnpackAny stack-overflow / exponential CPU+mem in CheckTx (pre-validation)

instances (2)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
cosmos	cosmos_protobuf_nest_bomb	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	cosmos_protobuf_nest_bomb	https://github.com/cosmos/cosmos-sdk/security/advisories/GHSA-8wcc-m6j2-qxvm ↗
sui	sui_move_recursion	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	sui_move_recursion	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-36184 ↗

references

vendor-advisory: GHPR-tronprotocol-java-tron-6844

related (compute_amp)

NRDAX-T0005 - Array Deserialization Memcpy Corruption active NRDAX-T0006 - Async Runtime Blocking VM Execution active NRDAX-T0013 - Bloom Filter Divide-By-Zero Crash active NRDAX-T0076 - Expensive Debug RPC Compute Amplification active NRDAX-T0101 - Handshake Crypto Validation Bypass Crash active NRDAX-T0122 - Integer Signedness Index OOB Crash active NRDAX-T0129 - Invalid Curve Point Panic active NRDAX-T0139 - Legacy Sighash Quadratic CPU Blowup active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0249

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0249.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0249,
  title = {Recursive Message Deserialisation Stack Overflow (NRDAX-T0249)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0249},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0249",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Recursive Message Deserialisation Stack Overflow (NRDAX-T0249)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0249",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}