{"id":"CVE-2026-104431","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-104431","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:02:29.422Z","title":"Zebra before 6.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated peers to stall Tokio workers by submitting mempool transactions requiring expensive synchronous script verification.","description":"Zebra before 6.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated peers to stall Tokio workers by submitting mempool transactions requiring expensive synchronous script verification. Attackers can send non-standard high-sigop P2SH transactions that reach CachedFfiTransaction::is_valid() before standardness checks, saturating the verifier buffer and rendering the node unresponsive.","published":"2026-10-02T12:17:14.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-02T17:59:09.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":8.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-405"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00343,"percentile":0.2764,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-10-03","score":0.00343,"percentile":0.25572}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.34%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-02T12:17:14.000Z","detail":{"score":"8.7","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-10-02T12:17:13.610Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 8.7)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-84j3-rw4c-gqmj","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zebra-before-6.0.0-denial-of-service-via-synchronous-script-ffi-verification","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104431","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}