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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon FuelLabs

Improve P2P DoS resilience

Open xgreenx opened this issue 8 months ago • 0 comments

Currently, the external sentries in the network are very vulnerable to external attackers. The attacker can spam nodes with many connections, requests, and heavy data-consuming sentry resources.

It can halt the node or cause resource exhaustion or OOM. Following issue highlights part of the vectors of atackes:

  • https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/issues/904
  • https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/issues/943
  • https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/issues/1567
  • https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/issues/1677
  • https://github.com/FuelLabs/fuel-core/issues/1774 - Without it attacker can consume all available connections

xgreenx avatar Jun 14 '24 21:06 xgreenx