CVE-2026-32605 PUBLISHED

Nimiq: Remote crash via off-by-one signer bounds check in proposal buffer

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 12.03.2026 Published: 13.04.2026 Updated: 16.04.2026

nimiq/core-rs-albatross is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.3.0, an untrusted peer could crash a validator by publishing a signed tendermint proposal message where signer == validators.num_validators(). ProposalSender::send uses > instead of >= for the signer bounds check, so the equality case passes and reaches validators.get_validator_by_slot_band(signer), which panics with an out-of-bounds index before any signature verification runs. This issue has been fixed in version 1.3.0.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor nimiq
Product core-rs-albatross
Versions
  • Version < 1.3.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE
  • CWE-193: Off-by-one Error CWE