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RUSTSEC-2026-0231 json

Relay authentication challenges can exhaust memory

published 3mo ago modified 3mo ago

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, OSV
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The SDK forwarded every NIP-42 `AUTH` challenge received from a relay through an unbounded command queue. Challenge handling can wait for an asynchronous signer or user interaction, so receiving challenges was substantially faster than completing the corresponding authentication work.

A malicious relay could continuously send new challenges without authenticating or delivering valid events. Every value remained queued, causing memory use and pending signer operations to grow without a fixed limit until the client became unavailable. The issue does not allow the relay to forge a signature or learn the client's private key.

The SDK now coalesces pending challenges through a latest-value channel. NIP-42 makes an earlier challenge invalid when the relay sends a new one, so replacing pending work preserves the only challenge that can still be answered while keeping memory use bounded.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io nostr-relay-pool 0.44.3

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io nostr-relay-pool
>=0.0.0-0, <0.44.3
0.44.3

References

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