iWant

iWant CLI based decentralized peer to peer file sharing Build Status What is it? A commandline tool for searching and downloading files in LAN network, without any central server. Features Decentralized : There is no central server hosting files. Therefore, no central point of failure Easy...

GHSA-CWC9-CP4J-MCVV libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays

Summary gossipsub processes IHAVE and IWANT control messages by iterating every received message ID synchronously before doing anything with the results. There is no cap on how many IDs a single frame may contain. The default LP frame limit is 4MB, which fits roughly 180,000 message IDs. Iteratin...

libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays

Summary gossipsub processes IHAVE and IWANT control messages by iterating every received message ID synchronously before doing anything with the results. There is no cap on how many IDs a single frame may contain. The default LP frame limit is 4MB, which fits roughly 180,000 message IDs. Iteratin...

EUVD-2026-42409

libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays...

CVE-2026-49866 libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays

libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to 16.0.0, @libp2p/gossipsub defaultDecodeRpcLimits set maxIhaveMessageIDs and maxIwantMessageIDs to Infinity, allowing oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays in message/decodeRpc.ts and gossipsub.ts to synchronousl...

CVE-2026-49866 libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays

libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to 16.0.0, @libp2p/gossipsub defaultDecodeRpcLimits set maxIhaveMessageIDs and maxIwantMessageIDs to Infinity, allowing oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays in message/decodeRpc.ts and gossipsub.ts to synchronousl...

CVE-2026-49866

CVE-2026-49866 affects the JavaScript libp2p implementation, specifically the @libp2p/gossipsub component. The root cause is defaultDecodeRpcLimits allowing maxIhaveMessageIDs and maxIwantMessageIDs to be Infinity prior to v16.0.0, enabling oversized IHAVE/IWANT control message arrays in message/...

CVE-2026-49866 libp2p: CPU DoS via oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays

libp2p is a JavaScript Implementation of libp2p networking stack. Prior to 16.0.0, @libp2p/gossipsub defaultDecodeRpcLimits set maxIhaveMessageIDs and maxIwantMessageIDs to Infinity, allowing oversized IHAVE and IWANT control message arrays in message/decodeRpc.ts and gossipsub.ts to synchronousl...