CVE-2026-40092
Published: 20 May 2026
Summary
CVE-2026-40092 is a high-severity Unchecked Return Value (CWE-252) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
NVD Description
nimiq-blockchain provides persistent block storage for Nimiq's Rust implementation. In versions 1.3.0 and below, a malicious network peer can crash any Nimiq full node by publishing a crafted Kademlia DHT record. The maliciously crafted record would contain a TaggedSigned<ValidatorRecord, KeyPair>…
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with a signature field whose byte length is not exactly 64 in order to cause a crash. When the victim node's DHT verifier calls TaggedSigned::verify, execution reaches Ed25519Signature::from_bytes(sig).unwrap() in the TaggedPublicKey implementation for Ed25519PublicKey. The from_bytes call fails because ed25519_zebra::Signature::try_from rejects slices not 64 bytes, and the unwrap() panics. The BLS TaggedPublicKey implementation correctly returns false on error; only the Ed25519 implementation panics. This issue has been fixed in version 1.4.0.
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EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2026-31197