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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2026-34064 EUVD-2026-25060GHSA-vc34-39q2-m6q3

nimiq-account: Vesting insufficient funds error can panic

Published Apr 22, 2026 · Updated Apr 23, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

nimiq-account contains account primitives to be used in Nimiq's Rust implementation. Prior to version 1.3.0, `VestingContract::can_change_balance` returns `AccountError::InsufficientFunds` when `new_balance < min_cap`, but it constructs the error using `balance: self.balance - min_cap`. `Coin::sub` panics on underflow, so if an attacker can reach a state where `min_cap > balance`, the node crashes while trying to return an error. The `min_cap > balance` precondition is attacker-reachable because the vesting contract creation data (32-byte format) allows encoding `total_amount` without validating `total_amount <= transaction.value` (the real contract balance). After creating such a vesting contract, the attacker can broadcast an outgoing transaction to trigger the panic during mempool admission and block processing. The patch for this vulnerability is included as part of v1.3.0. No known workarounds are available.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nimiq nimiq-account < 1.3.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io nimiq-account <= 0.2.0 — GHSA-vc34-39q2-m6q3

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