CVE-2026-89146
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libp2p-rendezvous Timer Overflow via Unbounded TTL

Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-89146, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.

Publication date: 2026-09-11

Last updated on: 2026-09-11

Assigner: VulnCheck

Description

libp2p-rendezvous through 0.17.1 fails to validate registration TTL values in discovery responses, allowing attackers to trigger timer arithmetic overflow. A malicious rendezvous server can send a discovery response with an unbounded TTL value that causes the client node process to panic when computing the expiry timer.

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Published
2026-09-11
Last Modified
2026-09-11
Generated
2026-09-11
AI Q&A
2026-09-11
EPSS Evaluated
N/A
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Affected Vendors & Products

Showing 2 associated CPEs
Vendor Product Version / Range
libp2p libp2p-rendezvous to 0.18.0 (inc)
libp2p libp2p-rendezvous to 0.17.1 (inc)

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Exploitability

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CWE-617 The product contains an assert() or similar statement that can be triggered by an attacker, which leads to an application exit or other behavior that is more severe than necessary.
CWE-190 The product performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This occurs when an integer value is incremented to a value that is too large to store in the associated representation. When this occurs, the value may become a very small or negative number.

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Executive Summary

libp2p-rendezvous through 0.17.1 fails to validate registration TTL values in discovery responses. A malicious server can send an unbounded TTL value causing an integer overflow in timer arithmetic on the client side. This leads to a panic and crashes the client node process.

Detection Guidance

Monitor for client crashes or panics in libp2p-rendezvous processes. Check logs for timer arithmetic overflow errors or excessive memory usage from pending expiry states. Use network traffic analysis to detect discovery responses with abnormally large TTL values.

Impact Analysis

This vulnerability allows attackers to crash client nodes by sending a malicious discovery response with an extremely large TTL value. It can disrupt normal operation of systems using libp2p-rendezvous, leading to denial of service conditions.

Mitigation Strategies

Upgrade libp2p-rendezvous to a patched version beyond 0.17.1. Implement TTL validation on client-side to reject excessively large values. Monitor server-side registration states to prevent memory exhaustion from repeated re-registrations.

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