MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-104426 (CVSS 8.2)

NVD · officialPublished Oct 2, 2026Risk 37/100

Zebra before 6.1.0 contains an inefficient algorithmic complexity vulnerability in remaining_transaction_value that clones the entire block-level spent-UTXO map per transaction during contextual verification. Attackers can mine or seed the mempool with roughly 26,000 minimal single-input transactions in one block, stalling every validating node for over 52 seconds.

Technical details

CVSS

8.2

AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:NoneUI:None

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