CVE-2026-40881CWE-770

Zebra: addr/addrv2 Deserialization Resource Exhaustion

Medium · published April 21, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
38.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to zebrad version 4.3.0 and zebra-network version 5.0.1, when deserializing addr or addrv2 messages, which contain vectors of addresses, Zebra would fully deserialize them up to a maximum length (over 233,000) that was derived from the 2 MiB message size limit. This is much larger than the actual limit of 1,000 messages from the specification. Zebra would eventually check that limit but, at that point, the memory for the larger vector was already allocated. An attacker could cause out-of-memory aborts in Zebra by sending multiple such messages over different connections. This vulnerability is fixed in zebrad version 4.3.0 and zebra-network version 5.0.1.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
EPSS
0.00460 · 38.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-04-21T19:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 21 APR 19:20Z
    Zebra: addr/addrv2 Deserialization Resource Exhaustion
    cvelistv5