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

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::putchunk allows any state-sync peer to crash any node performing state...

CVE-2026-46545

Summary: CVE-2026-46545 affects the Nimiq core-rs-albatross project (MerkleRadixTrie::put_chunk) and causes a remote, unauthenticated denial-of-service by a malicious state-sync peer sending a ROOT-keyed item in a ResponseChunk; upon put_raw attempting to store at the root, it panics with RootCan...

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

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::putchunk allows any state-sync peer to crash any node performing state...