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
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZenHive | mpp | 0.2.0 – < 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hex | mpp | >= 0.2.0, < 0.16.2 | 0.16.2 | EEF-CVE-2026-88255 |
References
- GitHub Advisory related vendor-advisory
- EEF CNA record for CVE-2026-88255 related
- OSV record EEF-CVE-2026-88255 related
- Introducing commit f890466 in ZenHive/mpp related
- Fix commit e12bd4a in ZenHive/mpp patch