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CVE-2026-44499

ZEBRA: Permanent Block Discovery Halt via Gossip Queue Saturation and Syncer Poisoning PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to version 4.4.0, a composite denial-of-service vulnerability in Zebra's block discovery pipeline allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently halt all new block discovery on a targeted node. The attack exploits three independent weaknesses in the gossip, syncer, and download subsystems — all exercisable from a single TCP connection — to create a monotonically growing block deficit that never self-heals. This issue has been patched in version 4.4.0.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
ZcashFoundation / zebraaffected < 4.4.0

CWE

CWE-770

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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