{"id":"CVE-2026-104436","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-104436","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T05:28:21.600Z","title":"Zebra before 4.5.0 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows remote P2P peers to exhaust blocking-pool threads by sending oversized block locator vectors.","description":"Zebra before 4.5.0 contains an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that allows remote P2P peers to exhaust blocking-pool threads by sending oversized block locator vectors. Attackers can send getblocks or getheaders messages with up to 65,535 locator hashes, triggering per-hash chain lookups that degrade block validation, RPC, and mempool performance.","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":6.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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-770"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00273,"percentile":0.19564,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-10-03","score":0.00273,"percentile":0.17889}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-10-02T12:17:14.000Z","detail":{"score":"6.3","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-10-02T12:17:14.210Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.3)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-443g-gwgp-49x4","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zebra-before-4.5.0-cpu-amplification-via-uncapped-getblocks-getheaders-locator-length","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104436","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."}