CVE-2026-44499 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 08.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor ZcashFoundation
Product zebra
Versions
  • Version < 4.4.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE