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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-52829 EUVD-2026-61172GHSA-63wg-wjjj-7cp8

ZEBRA: IPv4-Mapped Mempool Misbehavior Update Aborts Zebra Address Book

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

Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, an unauthenticated IPv4 peer can deterministically terminate a synced Zebra node using the default Linux dual-stack listener configuration. The handshake path canonicalized an IPv4-mapped IPv6 PeerSocketAddr such as ::ffff:127.0.0.1 to plain IPv4 before storing it through MetaAddr::new_connected, but the mempool misbehavior path forwarded the raw transient address to MetaAddrChange::UpdateMisbehavior. In zebra-network/src/meta_addr.rs, apply_to_meta_addr then compared the canonical address-book entry with the raw update address and reached its unexpected address mismatch assertion. After the misbehavior batch flush, panic equals abort terminated zebrad; the peer only needed to complete a P2P handshake and advertise an invalid mempool transaction. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ZcashFoundation zebra < 4.5.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io zebra-network < 7.0.0 7.0.0 GHSA-63wg-wjjj-7cp8
crates.io zebrad < 4.5.0 4.5.0 GHSA-63wg-wjjj-7cp8

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