CVE-2026-46539

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46539
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-46539.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-46539
Aliases
Published
2026-06-09T23:44:34Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:51:44Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
nimiq-primitives: BlockInclusionProof interlink issue when hops are empty
Details

Nimiq is a Rust implementation of the Nimiq Proof-of-Stake protocol based on the Albatross consensus algorithm. Prior to version 1.4.0, a logic flaw in BlockInclusionProof::is_block_proven causes the function to return true without performing any cryptographic verification when get_interlink_hops yields an empty hop list. This occurs when the target block is at the election block position immediately preceding the election head's epoch. An attacker providing transaction inclusion proofs can forge a MacroBlock header for that epoch position and have it accepted as "proven" without any hash or signature verification. This issue has been patched in version 1.4.0.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-345"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46539.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
e156ecc4a14377eb3e4b71f340a8ae905b9864b2
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "1.4.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.1.0-rc.0
v0.1.0-rc.1
v0.1.0-rc.2
v0.1.0-rc.3
v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.11.1
v0.11.2
v0.11.3
v0.11.4
v0.11.5
v0.12.0
v0.12.1
v0.13.0
v0.13.1
v0.14.0
v0.15.0
v0.16.0
v0.16.1
v0.17.0
v0.18.0
v0.19.0
v0.2.0
v0.2.1
v0.2.2
v0.20.0
v0.20.1
v0.20.2
v0.20.3
v0.20.4
v0.20.5
v0.21.0
v0.21.1
v0.22.0
v0.22.1
v0.22.2
v0.22.3
v0.23.0
v0.24.0
v0.24.1
v0.24.2
v0.24.3
v0.24.4
v0.3.0
v0.3.1
v0.3.2
v0.3.3
v0.4.0
v0.4.1
v0.5.0
v0.5.1
v0.5.2
v0.5.3
v0.5.4
v0.6.0
v0.7.0
v0.8.0
v0.8.1
v0.8.2
v0.8.3
v0.9.0
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.0-rc.0
v1.0.0-rc.1
v1.0.0-rc.2
v1.0.0-rc.3
v1.0.0-rc.4
v1.0.0-rc.5
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.0.3
v1.0.4
v1.0.5
v1.0.6
v1.0.7
v1.0.8
v1.0.9
v1.1.0
v1.1.1
v1.2.0
v1.2.1
v1.2.2
v1.3.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-46539.json"