NRDAX-T0331 - Unbounded Stream Backpressure OOM

Connection exhaustion (also memory amplification) · P2P and gossip · no bound · active · first seen 2026-07-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2022-23492/CVE-2022-23486: libp2p stream/connection exhaustion (no backpressure) → OOM

live exposure

No exposure data. Slashr ↗ has no risk signal mapped to this technique yet — absence of data is not absence of exposure.

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
libp2p	libp2p_stream_exhaustion	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	libp2p_stream_exhaustion	GHSA-j7qp-mfxf-8xjw ↗

references

ghsa: GHSA-qfwj-vfxf-92j2

related (Connection exhaustion)

NRDAX-T0041 - Cross-Chain Peer Pool Pollution active NRDAX-T0064 - Endpoint Concurrency Cap Exhaustion active NRDAX-T0099 - Half-Open Handshake Slowloris active NRDAX-T0214 - Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine active NRDAX-T0225 - QUIC Control Frame Flood active NRDAX-T0246 - Rate-Limit Key Confusion active NRDAX-T0261 - RPC Request Flood active NRDAX-T0291 - Subscription Permit Exhaustion active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0331

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0331.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0331,
  title = {Unbounded Stream Backpressure OOM (NRDAX-T0331)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0331},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0331",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Unbounded Stream Backpressure OOM (NRDAX-T0331)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0331",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}

badge

[![NRDAX-T0331 in the NRDAX registry](https://nrdax.com/badge/NRDAX-T0331.svg)](https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0331-unbounded-stream-backpressure-oom)

use from the CLI

Retrieve or cite this technique from a script or the terminal with the NRDAX Python library & CLI.

Retrieve this technique

nrdax get NRDAX-T0331

Cite it (BibTeX)

nrdax cite NRDAX-T0331 --format bibtex

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