NRDAX-T0333 - Unbounded Subscription Flood

Connection exhaustion · RPC and public API · no bound · active · first seen 2026-01-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

NullRabbit source-traced IOTA GraphQL unbounded-subscription flood (operator-gated).

live exposure

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

instances (2)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
iota	iota_graphql_s1_unbounded_subs	lab	NullRabbit Labs	iota_graphql_s1_unbounded_subs	-
libp2p	gossipsub_subscribe_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	gossipsub_subscribe_flood	GHSA-4f8r-922h-2vgv ↗

references

cve: CVE-2026-46679

ghsa: GHSA-cvfg-hcf3-ggwv

ghsa: GHSA-x2vm-cf3p-m2w8

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-T0333

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0333.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0333,
  title = {Unbounded Subscription Flood (NRDAX-T0333)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0333},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0333",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Unbounded Subscription Flood (NRDAX-T0333)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0333",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}

badge

[![NRDAX-T0333 in the NRDAX registry](https://nrdax.com/badge/NRDAX-T0333.svg)](https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0333-unbounded-subscription-flood)

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-T0333

Cite it (BibTeX)

nrdax cite NRDAX-T0333 --format bibtex

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