js-libp2p: Memory DoS via subscription flood of unique topics

Summary Three cooperating omissions in @libp2p/gossipsub allow an unauthenticated single peer to exhaust the Node.js heap of any gossipsub node with default options. 1. defaultDecodeRpcLimits.maxSubscriptions = Infinity packages/gossipsub/src/message/decodeRpc.ts:11: no decode-level cap on...

CVE-2023-38684 Discourse vulnerable to ossible DDoS due to unbounded limits in various controller actions

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the stable branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the beta and tests-passed branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an...