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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-88255 EEF-CVE-2026-88255EUVD-2026-80256GHSA-8x7x-5j8g-8hcxGHSA-p7v4-jpp9-2m3q

mpp Tempo keys its pre-broadcast dedup reserve on the caller-supplied transaction encoding, so a re-encoded signed transaction reserves a second slot

Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to pass the Tempo duplicate-submission gate twice with one signed transaction.

MPP.Methods.Tempo reserves the pre-broadcast dedup slot on the caller-supplied hex in reserve_hash_atomic/2, keyed through store_key/1 on tx.raw rather than on a canonical form of the transaction. The deserializer stores the caller's hex verbatim and accepts both recovery-id encodings, so one signed transaction submitted once with v=27 and once with v=0 yields two distinct reserve keys, and both pass the reserve and reach the broadcast path. The plug-level credential replay store is deliberately carved out for tempo in lib/mpp/replay.ex, leaving this reserve as the only gate, and the post-broadcast mark writes the canonical hash key that the raw-keyed reserve never reads.

What the duplicate submission yields depends on the node: a nonce-reuse rejection fails closed, while a node that answers with the canonical hash for an already-known transaction returns a second valid Payment-Receipt for a single on-chain payment.

This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.16.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ZenHive mpp 0.2.0 – < 0.16.2 0.16.2

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Hex mpp >= 0.2.0, < 0.16.2 0.16.2 EEF-CVE-2026-88255

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