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GHSA-hf2g-6j7h-98wg: klever-go: Unbounded goroutine spawn on direct-message ingress enables peer-driven DoS

June 5, 2026 (updated June 9, 2026)

networkMessenger.directMessageHandler in network/p2p/libp2p/netMessenger.go spawns a fresh goroutine for every incoming direct message before the antiflood layer makes an admission decision. There is no semaphore, throttler, or bound on concurrent in-flight spawns.

A single connected libp2p peer can open a DirectSendID stream and send well-formed TopicMessage envelopes with varying sequence numbers. Each accepted direct message reaches directMessageHandler and triggers a fresh goroutine before processor.ProcessReceivedMessage runs. This allows unbounded goroutine growth and node availability degradation from one peer.

This remains present in the latest release v1.7.17: network/p2p/libp2p/netMessenger.go:1060 still spawns go func(msg p2p.MessageP2P) before processor.ProcessReceivedMessage. I also verified current develop commit 10bcfd50, where the same spawn remains at network/p2p/libp2p/netMessenger.go:1115.

This is distinct from GHSA-74m6-4hjp-7226 and GHSA-87m7-qffr-542v. Those advisories concern MultiDataInterceptor decompression/throttler behavior. This report concerns the libp2p direct-message ingress wrapper spawning an unbounded goroutine before processor-level antiflood/admission logic runs. A patch to Batch.Decompress or MultiDataInterceptor does not bound this direct-message goroutine spawn.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-hf2g-6j7h-98wg
  • github.com/klever-io/klever-go/releases/tag/v1.7.18
  • github.com/klever-io/klever-go/security/advisories/GHSA-hf2g-6j7h-98wg
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52879

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 1.7.14 before 1.7.18

Fixed versions

  • 1.7.18

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.7.18 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

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

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

go/github.com/klever-io/klever-go/GHSA-hf2g-6j7h-98wg.yml

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