CVE-2026-52738

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52738
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52738.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-52738
Aliases
Published
2026-08-18T19:24:04.945Z
Modified
2026-08-21T03:30:21.712693713Z
Severity
  • 6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
ZEBRA: Finalized address balance credit-first overflow on consensus-valid blocks
Details

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, a consensus-valid block containing a long chain of transparent self-spends to one address can permanently halt Zebra nodes. In zebra-state/src/service/finalizedstate/zebradb/transparent.rs, the finalized-state writer originally applied every newly created output as a credit before applying any spent-output debit from the same block. That credit-first ordering can make the intermediate per-address balance exceed MAX_MONEY even though the final net balance is valid, causing an expect-based panic under the panic equals abort release profile. Because zcashd accepts the triggering block and Zebra encounters it again after every restart, the halt persists until patched software is deployed; exploitation requires mining the specially constructed block and temporarily committing sufficient ZEC to the self-spend chain. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "7.0.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-248"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/52xxx/CVE-2026-52738.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/zcashfoundation/zebra

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/zcashfoundation/zebra
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
1440b43ca7df59aca948090d45117557b217a6cd
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "4.5.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

4.*
4.3.1
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.0-alpha.0
v1.0.0-alpha.1
v1.0.0-alpha.10
v1.0.0-alpha.11
v1.0.0-alpha.12
v1.0.0-alpha.13
v1.0.0-alpha.14
v1.0.0-alpha.15
v1.0.0-alpha.16
v1.0.0-alpha.17
v1.0.0-alpha.18
v1.0.0-alpha.19
v1.0.0-alpha.2
v1.0.0-alpha.3
v1.0.0-alpha.4
v1.0.0-alpha.5
v1.0.0-alpha.6
v1.0.0-alpha.7
v1.0.0-alpha.8
v1.0.0-alpha.9
v1.0.0-beta.0
v1.0.0-beta.1
v1.0.0-beta.10
v1.0.0-beta.11
v1.0.0-beta.12
v1.0.0-beta.13
v1.0.0-beta.14
v1.0.0-beta.15
v1.0.0-beta.2
v1.0.0-beta.3
v1.0.0-beta.4
v1.0.0-beta.5
v1.0.0-beta.6
v1.0.0-beta.7
v1.0.0-beta.8
v1.0.0-beta.9
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
v1.0.0-rc.6
v1.0.0-rc.7
v1.0.0-rc.8
v1.0.0-rc.9
v1.0.1
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.4.0
v1.5.0
v1.5.1
v1.5.2
v1.6.0
v1.6.1
v1.7.0
v1.8.0
v1.9.0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0-rc.0
v2.0.1
v2.1.0
v2.2.0
v2.3.0
v2.4.0
v2.4.2
v2.5.0
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.0-rc.0
v3.1.0
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.1.0
v4.2.0
v4.3.0
v4.3.1
v4.4.0
v4.4.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52738.json"