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ZEBRA: Allocation Amplification in Inbound Network Deserializers

Published May 8, 2026

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.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner GitHub_M
Published May 8, 2026
Updated May 8, 2026
Reserved May 6, 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-2026-28784 GHSA-438Q-JX8F-CCCV