CVE-2026-44499

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to version 4.4.0, a composite denial-of-service vulnerability in Zebra's block discovery pipeline allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently halt all new block discovery on a targeted node. The attack exploits three independent weaknesses in the gossip, syncer, and download subsystems — all exercisable from a single TCP connection — to create a monotonically growing block deficit that never self-heals. This issue has been patched in version 4.4.0.

Severity

HIGH

CVSS score

8.7 (v4.0)

Vulnerability status

Deferred

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-05-08 16:16:13.117000

Last modified

2026-10-26 18:10:00.173000

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  "id": "CVE-2026-44499",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-05-08T16:16:13.117",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-26T18:10:00.173",
  "vulnStatus": "Deferred",
  "cveTags": [],
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      "value": "ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to version 4.4.0, a composite denial-of-service vulnerability in Zebra's block discovery pipeline allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently halt all new block discovery on a targeted node. The attack exploits three independent weaknesses in the gossip, syncer, and download subsystems — all exercisable from a single TCP connection — to create a monotonically growing block deficit that never self-heals. This issue has been patched in version 4.4.0."
    },
    {
      "lang": "es",
      "value": "ZEBRA es un nodo Zcash escrito completamente en Rust. Antes de la versión 4.4.0, una vulnerabilidad compuesta de denegación de servicio en la cadena de descubrimiento de bloques de Zebra permite a un atacante remoto no autenticado detener permanentemente todo nuevo descubrimiento de bloques en un nodo objetivo. El ataque explota tres debilidades independientes en los subsistemas de gossip, syncer y descarga - todas explotables desde una única conexión TCP - para crear un déficit de bloques que crece monótonamente y que nunca se auto-repara. Este problema ha sido parcheado en la versión 4.4.0."
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "source": "[email protected]",
      "affectedData": [
        {
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          "versions": [
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          "Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED",
          "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED",
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  "weaknesses": [
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  "references": [
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      "url": "https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-h9hm-m2xj-4rq9",
      "source": "[email protected]"
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}