NRDAX-T0331 - Unbounded Stream Backpressure OOM

connection_exhaustion · 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

instances (1)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
libp2p	libp2p_stream_exhaustion	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	libp2p_stream_exhaustion	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-j7qp-mfxf-8xjw ↗

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-T0214 - Protocol Message Flood Unbounded Goroutine 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"
}