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CVE-2026-40092

· Published 20/05/2026 22:16 · Modified 21/05/2026 16:04

Labels: CVE-2026-40092 2026-05-20CVE-2026-40092CWE-252[email protected]

Essential information

Published
20/05/2026 22:16
Modified
21/05/2026 16:04
Author
Creator
CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1)
CISA KEV
No
CWE
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS metrics

Description

nimiq-blockchain provides persistent block storage for Nimiq's Rust implementation. In versions 1.3.0 and below, a malicious network peer can crash any Nimiq full node by publishing a crafted Kademlia DHT record. The maliciously crafted record would contain a TaggedSigned<ValidatorRecord, KeyPair> with a signature field whose byte length is not exactly 64 in order to cause a crash. When the victim node's DHT verifier calls TaggedSigned::verify, execution reaches Ed25519Signature::from_bytes(sig).unwrap() in the TaggedPublicKey implementation for Ed25519PublicKey. The from_bytes call fails because ed25519_zebra::Signature::try_from rejects slices not 64 bytes, and the unwrap() panics. The BLS TaggedPublicKey implementation correctly returns false on error; only the Ed25519 implementation panics. This issue has been fixed in version 1.4.0.

NVD status

Status
Deferred — CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.
Source
[email protected]
NVD
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Affected products (CPE)

ProductCPE
nimiq / nimiq-blockchain cpe:2.3:a:nimiq:nimiq-blockchain:<1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
nimiq / nimiq-blockchain cpe:2.3:a:nimiq:nimiq-blockchain:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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