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TI-2026-83383 Aliases CVE-2026-62300GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h

Unbounded DAG pinning in Filecoin Pin can exhaust server resources

Priority MEDIUM 62CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

Filecoin Pin through 1.1.0 runs each POST /pins request as an unbounded recursive DAG traversal with no queue, concurrency cap, byte, block or time limit (CWE-400). An authenticated caller, or an anonymous caller when ALLOW_NO_AUTH=true, can submit large DAGs to exhaust disk, network, CPU and memory, degrading the service or crashing the host. CISA SSVC data lists a proof of concept, and the flaw is not in CISA KEV.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-05

Description from the CNA

Filecoin Pin is an IPFS Pinning Service API implementation that pins to Filecoin's PDP service. In daemon deployments up to and including version 1.1.0, `POST /pins` in `src/filecoin-pinning-server.ts` checks a caller-supplied CID with `CID.parse` and passes it to `pinStore.pin`, but does not enforce request rate limits or per-user quotas. In `src/filecoin-pin-store.ts`, each pin independently schedules `_processPinInBackground` with `setTimeout` without a queue, semaphore or concurrency cap, then recursively traverses the full DAG using `helia.pins.add(cid)`. The per-pin Helia/Bitswap node in `src/create-pinning-helia.ts` has no application-level byte, block or traversal-time limits. Blocks are written under `carStoragePath` by `src/core/car/car-blockstore-base.ts` and `src/core/car/car-file-backend.ts`, with `stats.totalSize` updated only after writing. An authenticated caller, or an anonymous caller when `ALLOW_NO_AUTH=true`, can submit large DAGs and exhaust disk, network, CPU, memory and libp2p resources, causing service degradation or host/process failure and leaving partial CAR files requiring recovery. The default localhost binding and token requirement reduce exposure. Because nodes have no bootstrap or mDNS configuration, a CID alone may not be fetchable, but caller-supplied `origins` can point to a reachable attacker-controlled libp2p source; concurrent requests accelerate resource pressure. Version 1.1.1 documents operational mitigations but does not implement the missing resource controls.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00249 16th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed filecoin-pin (npm): 1.1.1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
filecoin-projectfilecoin-pinup to 1.1.0—No fix listedCNA
—filecoin-pin (npm)before 1.1.11.1.1Patch availableGHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h
  • filecoin-pin Vendorfilecoin-project Affected up to 1.1.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • filecoin-pin (npm) Vendor— Affected before 1.1.1 Fixed in 1.1.1 Patch available GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h

Remediation

Upgrade the npm package filecoin-pin to 1.1.1, the fixed version. Version 1.1.1 documents operational mitigations but does not implement the missing resource controls. The sources list no fixed version.

Written with Claude Haiku 5.5 from the sources below · 2026-11-05

  • Fix · GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h filecoin-pin (npm) Fixed in 1.1.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-30 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-62300
  2. 2026-11-01 Priority changed: MEDIUM → LOW
  3. 2026-11-02 CISA SSVC decision points changed
  4. 2026-11-02 Priority changed: LOW → MEDIUM
  5. 2026-11-05 Alias added: GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h
  6. 2026-11-05 Fix available: npm/[email protected] · GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h
  7. 2026-11-05 CVSS score added · GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h
  8. 2026-11-05 Weakness changed · GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h
  9. 2026-11-05 6 new references · GHSA-m5ph-mmg5-6w5h

References

  • TI-2026-83382 Fork bypass in filecoin-pin privileged GitHub Actions workflow CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.2
  • TI-2025-37330 go-f3 module vulnerable to integer overflow leading to panic CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-04503 BLS Signature "Malleability" CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2025-37329 go-f3 is Vulnerable to Cached Justification Verification Bypass CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5

Sources