CVE-2026-32605 HIGH

CVE-2026-32605: Nimiq: Remote crash via off-by-one signer bounds check in proposal buffer

Vendor Nimiq
Product core-rs-albatross
Weakness CWE-125
Published April 13, 2026
Last update April 16, 2026

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

nimiq/core-rs-albatross is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.3.0, an untrusted peer could crash a validator by publishing a signed tendermint proposal message where signer == validators.num_validators(). ProposalSender::send uses > instead of >= for the signer bounds check, so the equality case passes and reaches validators.get_validator_by_slot_band(signer), which panics with an out-of-bounds index before any signature verification runs. This issue has been fixed in version 1.3.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 13, 2026 CVE published
April 16, 2026 Record updated