CVE-2026-46539

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
2026-06-09T23:44:34.283Z
Modified
2026-07-08T08:13:38.592851035Z
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::isblockproven causes the function to return true without performing any cryptographic verification when getinterlinkhops 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
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/46xxx/CVE-2026-46539.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-345"
    ]
}
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
Database specific
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.4.0"
        }
    ]
}

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"