probe decoded the node status response with json.NewDecoder(resp.Body) and no
size limit. encoding/json buffers the whole value before decoding, so the
allocation was dictated by the peer regardless of how few fields the envelope
declares — and the heartbeat job probes up to 32 nodes concurrently on a 4s
budget with no client-level timeout.
The sibling RPC path already caps every node response at 64 MiB
(readCappedBody in internal/web/runtime), so this was the one uncapped read
of node-controlled data. A status envelope holds a handful of scalars, so the
cap here is 1 MiB rather than the RPC figure.
The peer is untrusted in the skip and pin TLS modes, and the same decode is
reachable from the nodes test and probe endpoints.
Sanaei