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A submitter who\nlisted a key belonging to another topology, such as its `-stormjar.jar`, could therefore cause\nthat blob to be deleted when their own topology was cleaned up.\n\nSeparately, on acquiring leadership a Nimbus compares the dependency keys of all active topologies against\nthe blobstore contents and surrenders leadership if any is missing. A single key that does not exist, on a\nsingle active topology, therefore causes every Nimbus to acquire leadership, surrender it and requeue\nindefinitely, leaving the cluster without a leader and unable to schedule, clean up or accept submissions.\n\nMitigation\n\nUpgrade to 3.1.0, where a submission is refused unless every entry in both lists is a dependency blob key\nand exists in the blobstore.\n\nNote that this validates new submissions only; a topology stored by an affected version with an invalid list\nis unaffected by the upgrade. 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