nimiq-primitives: Panic DoS in trie chunk processing via ROOT-keyed item
CVE-2026-46545

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Nimiq

Status
Core-rs-albatross
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 June 2026

What is CVE-2026-46545?

Nimiq is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.5.0, a remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in MerkleRadixTrie::put_chunk allows any state-sync peer to crash any node performing state synchronization (freshly joining nodes and recovering nodes). This issue has been patched in version 1.5.0.

Affected Version(s)

core-rs-albatross < 1.5.0

References

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/security/advis...
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https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/pull/3762
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https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/releases/tag/v...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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