CVE-2026-40093

nimiq-blockchain is missing a wall-clock upper bound on block timestamps

State
Published
Severity
8.1 High
Published
Apr 9, 2026
Updated
Apr 13, 2026
Reserved
Apr 9, 2026

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Description

nimiq-blockchain provides persistent block storage for Nimiq's Rust implementation. In 1.3.0 and earlier, block timestamp validation enforces that timestamp >= parent.timestamp for non-skip blocks and timestamp == parent.timestamp + MIN_PRODUCER_TIMEOUT for skip blocks, but there is no visible upper bound check against the wall clock. A malicious block-producing validator can set block timestamps arbitrarily far in the future. This directly affects reward calculations via Policy::supply_at() and batch_delay() in blockchain/src/reward.rs, inflating the monetary supply beyond the intended emission schedule.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1284 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

Affected Products

ProductVersions
core-rs-albatrossnimiq
  • <= 1.3.0Affected

References

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