CVE-2026-52732
ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, one unauthenticated P2P peer can monopolize all 25 MAX_INBOUND_CONCURRENCY s
CVSS
5.3
Medium
EPSS
0.4%
p31
KEV
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Exploit Today
9
0-100
Published: Aug 18, 2026 · Last modified: Sep 9, 2026 · CWE-770
ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, one unauthenticated P2P peer can monopolize all 25 MAX_INBOUND_CONCURRENCY slots in Zebra's inbound mempool download and verification pipeline. In zebrad/src/components/mempool/downloads.rs, the bounded queue was shared globally without per-peer accounting, while peer identity was not carried through Gossip and FullQueue responses were mapped to Response::Nil instead of reaching overload disconnection handling. An attacker can advertise fake transaction identifiers and remain silent so each task holds a slot until TRANSACTION_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT, then periodically refill the queue as slots expire. While saturated, honest peer transactions and local sendrawtransaction requests are rejected with MempoolError::FullQueue, although block validation and synchronization continue. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.
- github.comhttps://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/commit/1440b43ca7df59aca948090d45117557b217a6cd
- github.comhttps://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/releases/tag/v4.5.0
- github.comhttps://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc2-h7jh-287c
- github.comhttps://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-4fc2-h7jh-287c