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ZEBRA: Consensus Divergence in Transparent Sighash Hash-Type Handling

Published May 8, 2026

Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to zebrad version 4.3.1 and prior to zebra-script version 5.0.2, after a refactoring, Zebra failed to validate a consensus rule that restricted the possible values of sighash hash types for V5 transactions which were enabled in the NU5 network upgrade. Zebra nodes could thus accept and eventually mine a block that would be considered invalid by zcashd nodes, creating a consensus split between Zebra and zcashd nodes. In a similar vein, for V4 transactions, Zebra mistakenly used the "canonical" hash type when computing the sighash while zcashd (correctly per the spec) uses the raw value, which could also crate a consensus split. This issue has been patched in zebrad version 4.3.1 and zebra-script version 5.0.2.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 8, 2026
Updated May 8, 2026
Reserved Apr 21, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated May 8, 2026
NVD
Status Analyzed
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 8, 2026
Updated May 8, 2026
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2026-28653 GHSA-8M29-FPQ5-89JJ