NRDAX-T0333 - Unbounded Subscription Flood

connection_exhaustion · 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).

instances (2)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
iota	iota_graphql_s1_unbounded_subs	lab	NullRabbit Labs	iota_graphql_s1_unbounded_subs	iota-graphql-rpc subscription_handler/GraphQLWebSocket (no sub cap); IOTA ownership doc S1
libp2p	gossipsub_subscribe_flood	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	gossipsub_subscribe_flood	https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4f8r-922h-2vgv ↗

references

cve: CVE-2026-46679

vendor-advisory: GHREL-prysmaticlabs-prysm-v7.1.7

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-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"
}