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    CVE-2026-40092

    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.

    Published:May 20, 2026
    Last Modified:May 21, 2026
    EPS:May 20, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00063
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Nimiq
    Product
    Core-rs-albatross

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-252 Unchecked Return Value

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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