README.md

metadata

tags:
  - security
  - proof-of-concept
  - msgpack
license: mit

MessagePack array32 repeated-empty-string materialization DoS PoC

This repository contains a benign security research PoC for a .msgpack artifact that drives large in-memory materialization during msgpack.unpackb(..., raw=False).

Files:

• control_bin32_same_size.msgpack
• malicious_array32_empty_strings_20000000.msgpack
• reproduce.py

Observed behavior:

• control artifact:
  • parses successfully as one bytes object
• malicious artifact:
  • same size as control
  • parses successfully as a list of 20,000,000 empty strings
  • materially increases peak RSS during normal unpack

Reproduction:

python3 build_poc.py
python3 reproduce.py