CVE-2026-45783

high

Published 2026-05-19 · Modified 2026-05-19

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.0

Description

@libp2p/kad-dht: Unvalidated PUT_VALUE records allow unbounded disk exhaustion on DHT server nodes

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
npm	@libp2p/kad-dht	`<16.2.6`	`16.2.6`
NPM	@libp2p/kad-dht	`< 16.2.6`	`16.2.6`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.