CVE-2026-35468CWE-252

nimiq/core-rs-albatross: Panic in history index request handlers when a full node runs without the history index

Medium · published April 3, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
49.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

nimiq/core-rs-albatross is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.3.0, two peer-facing consensus request handlers assume that the history index is always available and call blockchain.history_store.history_index().unwrap() directly. That assumption is false by construction. HistoryStoreProxy::history_index() explicitly returns None for the valid HistoryStoreProxy::WithoutIndex state. when a full node is syncing or otherwise running without the history index, a remote peer can send RequestTransactionsProof or RequestTransactionReceiptsByAddress and trigger an Option::unwrap() panic on the request path. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00630 · 49.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-252 · Unchecked Return Value
Published
2026-04-03T22:10Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 APR 22:10Z
    nimiq/core-rs-albatross: Panic in history index request handlers when a full node runs without the history index
    cvelistv5