CVE-2026-34065 PUBLISHED

nimiq-primitives: Node crash due to missing interlink validation in election macro block proposals

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.03.2026 Published: 22.04.2026 Updated: 22.04.2026

nimiq-primitives contains primitives (e.g., block, account, transaction) to be used in Nimiq's Rust implementation. Prior to version 1.3.0, an untrusted p2p peer can cause a node to panic by announcing an election macro block whose validators set contains an invalid compressed BLS voting key. Hashing an election macro header hashes validators and reaches Validators::voting_keys(), which calls validator.voting_key.uncompress().unwrap() and panics on invalid bytes. The patch for this vulnerability is included as part of v1.3.0. No known workarounds are available.

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 nimiq-primitives
Versions
  • Version < 1.3.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-252: Unchecked Return Value CWE
  • CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions CWE