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CVE-2022-23486

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23486 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting libp2p-rust versions prior to 0.45.1. An unauthenticated attacker can cause a victim node to exhaust its memory by allocating numerous small chunks, leading to process termination. This vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.45.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:protocol:libp2p:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
49.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0069 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: libp2pFixed in: 0.45.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-jvgw-gccv-q5p8high

libp2p DoS vulnerability from lack of resource management

Dec 7, 2022

References

github.com / libp2p/rust-libp2p/security/advisories/GHSA-jvgw-gccv-q5p8
Third Party Advisory