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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-52733 EUVD-2026-61168GHSA-2gf8-q9rr-jq3h

ZEBRA: Persistent on-disk corruption of Sapling/Orchard subtree roots after chain fork via pop_tip

Published Aug 18, 2026 · Updated Aug 19, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, a natural or attacker-influenced chain fork can leave stale Sapling and Orchard note-commitment subtree roots in Zebra state. In zebra-state/src/service/non_finalized_state/chain.rs, Chain::pop_tip removed a reverted tip block but did not remove subtree entries whose end_height belonged to that block, unlike the cleanup performed by pop_root. When the winning fork later finalized, the abandoned branch's stale subtree data could be written to RocksDB and survive node restarts. The corrupted history can cause z_getsubtreesbyindex consumers such as lightwalletd and light wallets to receive incorrect subtree roots, producing wallet synchronization failures or incorrect wallet state and requiring a full state rebuild for recovery. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ZcashFoundation zebra < 4.5.0 —
ZcashFoundation zebra-state < 7.0.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io zebra-state < 7.0.0 7.0.0 GHSA-2gf8-q9rr-jq3h
crates.io zebrad < 4.5.0 4.5.0 GHSA-2gf8-q9rr-jq3h

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