CVE 7.5 HIGH

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

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-46545
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 9, 2026 at 23:47

Affected Product

Vendor nimiq
Product core-rs-albatross
Version < 1.5.0
Affected Versions nimiq core-rs-albatross < 1.5.0

CWE Classification

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