Add a rate limiting circuit breaker to the network controller to prevent flooding attacks and race conditions.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/controller/SqliteNetworkController.cpp b/controller/SqliteNetworkController.cpp
index f6489640..bdf337ec 100644
--- a/controller/SqliteNetworkController.cpp
+++ b/controller/SqliteNetworkController.cpp
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@
 // API version reported via JSON control plane
 #define ZT_NETCONF_CONTROLLER_API_VERSION 1
 
+// Drop requests for a given peer and network ID that occur more frequently
+// than this (ms).
+#define ZT_NETCONF_MIN_REQUEST_PERIOD 5000
+
 namespace ZeroTier {
 
 namespace {
@@ -316,6 +320,15 @@ NetworkController::ResultCode SqliteNetworkController::doNetworkConfigRequest(co
 		return NetworkController::NETCONF_QUERY_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR;
 	}
 
+	// Check rate limit
+
+	{
+		uint64_t &lrt = _lastRequestTime[std::pair<Address,uint64_t>(identity.address(),nwid)];
+		uint64_t lrt2 = lrt;
+		if (((lrt = OSUtils::now()) - lrt2) <= ZT_NETCONF_MIN_REQUEST_PERIOD)
+			return NetworkController::NETCONF_QUERY_IGNORE;
+	}
+
 	NetworkRecord network;
 	memset(&network,0,sizeof(network));
 	Utils::snprintf(network.id,sizeof(network.id),"%.16llx",(unsigned long long)nwid);