CVE-2026-46545 HIGH

CVE-2026-46545: nimiq-primitives: Panic DoS in trie chunk processing via ROOT-keyed item

Vendor Nimiq
Product core-rs-albatross
Weakness CWE-248
Published June 9, 2026
Last update June 10, 2026
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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 is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.5.0, a remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in MerkleRadixTrie::put_chunk allows any state-sync peer to crash any node performing state synchronization (freshly joining nodes and recovering nodes). This issue has been patched in version 1.5.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

June 9, 2026 CVE published
June 10, 2026 Record updated