CVE-2026-73829 PUBLISHED

Non-atomic hash-credential dedup in mpp Tempo allows replay of a confirmed payment under a concurrent race

Assigner: EEF
Reserved: 17.08.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to redeem one confirmed on-chain payment for multiple paid-resource accesses.

The type="hash" credential path in MPP.Methods.Tempo.verify/2 guards against replay with a non-atomic check-then-mark sequence: check_hash_unused/2 reads the dedup store, an eth_getTransactionReceipt round trip verifies the payment on chain, and only then does mark_hash_used/2 write the mark. Concurrent requests carrying the same settled payment hash all pass the read before any of them writes, so each is issued a receipt. The store's atomic check_and_mark/2 primitive is available and used by the type="transaction" path, but the hash path calls plain get and put even when the configured store implements it. Exploitation requires a dedup store to be configured; the default nil store is stateless and documented as offering no replay protection at all.

This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.6.1.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 6.3

Product Status

Vendor ZenHive
Product mpp
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.2.0 to 0.6.1 (excl.)
Vendor ZenHive
Product mpp
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from f8904666061fbab695874856d8fcd02c471dfe1b to 46c5b0e1311da7d92190dc7d9ea89027a1d365e9 (excl.)

Affected Configurations

The race is only reachable when MPP.Methods.Tempo is configured with a dedup store ("store" in method_config). The default is nil, which runs the library statelessly and provides no application-level replay protection at all, a documented property rather than part of this issue.

Credits

  • Jonatan Männchen / EEF analyst
  • E.FU finder
  • E.FU remediation developer

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-367 Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions