CVE-2026-73541CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-73541

High · published August 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to drain the fee-payer wallet through concurrent sponsored payments, denying service to legitimate payers once it is empty.

MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy enforces its ceilings (max_gas, max_fee_per_gas, max_priority_fee_per_gas, the worst-case gas_limit * max_fee_per_gas <= max_total_fee budget cap, and a validity window) against one transaction at a time, and nothing accounts for exposure across concurrent requests. reserve_hash_atomic/2 is keyed on the transaction hash, so it prevents duplicate broadcast of the same signed transaction but not N distinct sponsored transactions carrying distinct expiring nonces. Committed sponsor exposure is therefore N times max_total_fee, bounded by nothing in the library, and the default 900 second validity window lets co-signed transactions stay broadcastable and uncounted for that entire period.

This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.12.0.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS v4.0
8.3 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00589 · 47.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-08-19T22:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
zenhive/machine_payments_protocol≥ 0.2.0, < 0.12.00.12.0
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 17:20Z
    Tempo fee sponsorship in mpp bounds each transaction but not aggregate exposure, allowing concurrent sponsor-wallet drain
    cvelistv5