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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-95859 EUVD-2026-102898GHSA-g3g5-x568-qvqxRUSTSEC-2026-0536

libp2p-rust: Gossipsub GRAFT topics unbounded growth

Published Oct 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

libp2p-rust is the official Rust language implementation of the libp2p networking stack. Prior to 0.49.5, Gossipsub GRAFT control-message handling unconditionally adds attacker-supplied topic hashes to connected_peer.topics without confirming that the peer previously subscribed to those topics. A remote unauthenticated peer that can reach a Gossipsub listener can repeatedly send novel GRAFT topics, causing cumulative per-peer memory growth that is not bounded by subscription filters, peer scoring, or per-message size limits. This can exhaust process memory and cause a denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 0.49.5.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
libp2p rust-libp2p < 0.49.5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io libp2p-gossipsub >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.49.5 0.49.5 RUSTSEC-2026-0536

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