CVE-2026-46545

Published: Jun 10, 2026Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Description

Nimiq is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.5.0, a remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in MerkleRadixTrie::put_chunk allows any state-sync peer to crash any node performing state synchronization (freshly joining nodes and recovering nodes). This issue has been patched in version 1.5.0.

Related CWEs

CWE-248

Uncaught Exception

An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.

References (3)

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/pull/3762

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/releases/tag/v1.5.0

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/security/advisories/GHSA-mw3q-r9wh-h2ff

Source: security-advisories@github.com

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