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CVE-2026-104436: Zebra before 4.5.0 CPU Amplification via Uncapped getblocks/getheaders Locator Length

MediumCVSS 6.3 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 25/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.27% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
  • Fixed version: ZcashFoundation zebra 4.5.0; ZcashFoundation zebra-chain 8.0.0.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to ZcashFoundation zebra 4.5.0; ZcashFoundation zebra-chain 8.0.0 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Zebra before 4.5.0 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows remote P2P peers to exhaust blocking-pool threads by sending oversized block locator vectors. Attackers can send getblocks or getheaders messages with up to 65,535 locator hashes, triggering per-hash chain lookups that degrade block validation, RPC, and mempool performance.

Published
Oct 2, 2026
Updated
Oct 29, 2026
EPSS
0.2% · 19th percentile

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Action score

25

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
25 / 40 · 6.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

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CNA vs NVD score

NVD
—
CNA · VulnCheck
6.3
NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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Affected systems

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Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • ZcashFoundation zebra

    • 4.5.0not affected
    • before 4.5.0affected · semver

  • ZcashFoundation zebra-chain

    • 8.0.0not affected
    • before 8.0.0affected · semver

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
crates.iozebra-chainbefore 8.0.08.0.0
crates.iozebradbefore 4.5.04.5.0

Same product

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Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2026-52735ZEBRA: Consensus divergence via P2SH sigop undercount in pure-Rust disabled-opcode parser
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-54496Missing copy constraint in halo2_gadgets variable-base scalar multiplication allows under-constrained base, breaking Orchard Action circuit soundness
    37Monitor
  • CVE-2026-123560Zebra before 7.0.0 Sync Denial of Service via Forged Checkpoint Block Body
    34Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-104434Oct 2, 2026 · Zebra before 8.0.0 Denial of Service via z_listunifiedreceivers RPC
    28Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2026-104435Oct 2, 2026 · Zebra 4.4.0 Consensus Divergence via V5 SIGHASH_SINGLE Without Output
    33Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2026-104437Oct 2, 2026 · Zebra before 4.4.0 Consensus Split via SIGHASH_SINGLE Missing-Output Handling
    33Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
ZcashFoundation zebra4.5.0Vendor (CNA)
ZcashFoundation zebra-chain8.0.0Vendor (CNA)
crates.io:zebra-chain8.0.0Package registry (OSV)
crates.io:zebrad4.5.0Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

  1. Published
  2. Fix recordedsame day
  3. TodayNov 13, 2026+42 d
EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

  • CVE-2026-44499147 days apartZEBRA: Permanent Block Discovery Halt via Gossip Queue Saturation and Syncer Poisoning
    34Monitor
  • CVE-2026-1044290 days apartZebra before 6.0.0-rc.0 Per-Peer Mempool Admission Bypass via P2P tx Messages
    27Monitor
  • CVE-2026-5273245 days apartZEBRA: Mempool transaction admission denial via single-peer inbound queue saturation
    21Monitor

Not on record for this CVE: patch commit or PR link · public bounty program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.

If successful

Confidentiality
Integrity
Availability
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. SSVC exploitation— → none
  2. Exploit maturity— → none
  3. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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