From dba41f9135f5106a0d58648bf165893d5dd20971 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Cloke Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 11:07:55 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add notes about DoS potential. --- proposals/2946-spaces-summary.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/proposals/2946-spaces-summary.md b/proposals/2946-spaces-summary.md index cb1840d51..ef486658a 100644 --- a/proposals/2946-spaces-summary.md +++ b/proposals/2946-spaces-summary.md @@ -203,7 +203,10 @@ but this is unnecessary to provide the expected user experience. ## Security considerations -None. +A space with many rooms on different homeservers could cause multiple federation +requests to be made. A carefully crafted room with inadequate limits on the maximum +rooms per space (or a maximum total number of rooms) could be used in a denial +of service attack. ## Unstable prefix