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P2P DoS Attacks

Critical
doitian published GHSA-84x2-2qv6-qg56 Jun 5, 2020

Package

No package listed

Affected versions

<= 0.32.0

Patched versions

None

Description

The P2P protocols lack of rate limit. For example, in relay protocol, when a node receives a broadcasted tx_hashes, it will mark it in memory to avoid duplicated requests. code → .

It is easy to establish a DoS attach by generating random tx hashes.

Impact

It affects all nodes connected to the P2P network.

Workarounds

Apply rate limit on the data sent to CKB P2P port.

Severity

Critical

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs