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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-32605 EUVD-2026-22061

Nimiq: Remote crash via off-by-one signer bounds check in proposal buffer

Published Apr 13, 2026 · Updated Apr 16, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

nimiq/core-rs-albatross is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.3.0, an untrusted peer could crash a validator by publishing a signed tendermint proposal message where signer == validators.num_validators(). ProposalSender::send uses > instead of >= for the signer bounds check, so the equality case passes and reaches validators.get_validator_by_slot_band(signer), which panics with an out-of-bounds index before any signature verification runs. This issue has been fixed in version 1.3.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nimiq core-rs-albatross < 1.3.0 —

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