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nimiq-primitives: Node crash due to missing interlink validation in election macro block proposals

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Apr 22, 2026 in nimiq/core-rs-albatross

Package

cargo nimiq-primitives (Rust)

Affected versions

<= 0.2.0

Patched versions

None

Description

Impact

An untrusted p2p peer can cause a node to panic by announcing an election macro block whose validators set contains an invalid compressed BLS voting key.

Hashing an election macro header hashes validators and reaches Validators::voting_keys(), which calls validator.voting_key.uncompress().unwrap() and panics on invalid bytes.

Patches

The patch for this vulnerability is included as part of v1.3.0.

Workarounds

No known workarounds.

References

@jsdanielh jsdanielh published to nimiq/core-rs-albatross Apr 22, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 22, 2026
Reviewed Apr 22, 2026

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Weaknesses

Unchecked Return Value

The product does not check the return value from a method or function, which can prevent it from detecting unexpected states and conditions. Learn more on MITRE.

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-34065

GHSA ID

GHSA-7c4j-2m43-2mgh

Source code

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