NRDAX-T0292 - Sync Height Manipulation Stall

memory_amp · active · first seen 2026-07-09

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2025-24371 (ASA-2025-001 / GHSA-22qq-3xwm-r5x4): a malicious CometBFT blocksync peer disrupts a node's ability to sync. In blocksync a peer reports its base/latest heights in a StatusResponse; the

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
cosmos	cometbft_blocksync_height_decrease_stuck	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	cometbft_blocksync_height_decrease_stuck	CVE-2025-24371

related (memory_amp)

NRDAX-T0023 - Coalesced Packet Buffer Leak active NRDAX-T0025 - Compact Block Size Integer Overflow active NRDAX-T0038 - Count Underflow Header Serving Amplification active NRDAX-T0042 - Crypto Frame Reassembly Buffer Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0046 - Decompression Bomb Resource Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0059 - Duplicate Transport Parameter Memory Leak active NRDAX-T0061 - Duplicate Tx Mempool Index Desync active NRDAX-T0071 - Ethash Verification Memory Exhaustion active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0292

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0292.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0292,
  title = {Sync Height Manipulation Stall (NRDAX-T0292)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0292},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0292",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Sync Height Manipulation Stall (NRDAX-T0292)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0292",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}