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Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to version 4.4.0, a composite denial-of-service vulnerability in Zebra's block discovery pipeline allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently halt all new block discovery on a targeted node. The attack exploits three independent weaknesses in the gossip, syncer, and download subsystems — all exercisable from a single TCP connection — to create a monotonically growing block deficit that never self-heals. This issue has been patched in version 4.4.0.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-06 | Published 2026-05-08 | Updated 2026-05-08 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

< 4.4.0
affected

References

github.com/.../zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-h9hm-m2xj-4rq9

cve.org (CVE-2026-44499)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-44499)

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