ZEBRA: Allocation Amplification in Inbound Network Deserializers
Published May 8, 2026
5.3
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.41%
Description
ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to zebrad version 4.4.0, prior to zebra-chain version 7.0.0, and prior to zebra-network version 6.0.0, several inbound deserialization paths in Zebra allocated buffers sized against generic transport or block-size ceilings before the tighter protocol or consensus limits were enforced. An unauthenticated or post-handshake peer could therefore force the node to preallocate and parse for orders of magnitude more data than the protocol intended, across headers messages, equihash solutions in block headers, Sapling spend vectors in V5/V4 transactions, and coinbase script bytes in blocks. This issue has been patched in zebrad version 4.4.0, zebra-chain version 7.0.0, and zebra-network version 6.0.0.
Affected products
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- Version zebra-chain < 7.0.0StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version zebra-network < 6.0.0StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version zebrad < 4.4.0StatusaffectedConstraints-
- Version
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
| Vendor | Product | Default status | Versions | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZcashFoundation | Zebra | n/a |
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- < 7.0.0
- < 6.0.0
- < 4.4.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
References (5)
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-28784 Advisory
- https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/releases/tag/v4.4.0
- https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-438q-jx8f-cccv x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitVendor Advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-438q-jx8f-cccv Advisory
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44500
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-28784 | Advisory | |
| https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/releases/tag/v4.4.0 | ||
| https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-438q-jx8f-cccv | x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitVendor Advisory | |
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-438q-jx8f-cccv | Advisory | |
| https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44500 |
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