CVE-2026-41584

ZEBRA: rk Identity Point Panic in Transaction Verification

State
Published
Severity
9.2 Critical
Published
May 8, 2026
Updated
May 8, 2026
Reserved
Apr 21, 2026

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Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to zebrad version 4.3.1 and prior to zebra-chain version 6.0.2, Orchard transactions contain a rk field which is a randomized validating key and also an elliptic curve point. The Zcash specification allows the field to be the identity (a "zero" value), however, the orchard crate which is used to verify Orchard proofs would panic when fed a rk with the identity value. Thus an attacker could send a crafted transaction that would make a Zebra node crash. This issue has been patched in zebrad version 4.3.1 and zebra-chain version 6.0.2.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.09.2 CriticalCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
zebraZcashFoundation
  • zebra-chain < 6.0.2Affected
  • zebrad < 4.3.1Affected

References

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