Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting libp2p package, versions [,0.2.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LIBP2P-10851401
  • published20 Jul 2025
  • disclosed14 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Jul 2025

NewCVE-2025-29606  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libp2p to version 0.2.3 or higher.

Overview

libp2p is a libp2p: The Python implementation of the libp2p networking stack

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the RSA key handling process. An attacker can exhaust system resources by submitting excessively large RSA keys.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1