MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-123557 (CVSS 8.2)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 8, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.3%

ZcashFoundation Zebra zebrad before 7.0.0 contains a reachable assertion race condition that allows unauthenticated remote peers to abort the node by triggering disconnection during a blocked outbound send. Malicious peers can return empty FindBlocks or FindHeaders replies and stop reading their socket, dropping an unresolved MustUseClientResponseSender and terminating syncing nodes.

Technical details

CVSS

8.2

AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:NoneUI:None

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