CVE-2026-40881: Zebra: addr/addrv2 Deserialization Resource Exhaustion
ZcashFoundation · zebrad
Affected: ZcashFoundation zebrad · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 18% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to zebrad version 4.3.0 and zebra-network version 5.0.1, when deserializing addr or addrv2 messages, which contain vectors of addresses, Zebra would fully deserialize them up to a maximum length (over 233,000) that was derived from the 2 MiB message size limit. This is much larger than the actual limit of 1,000 messages from the specification. Zebra would eventually check that limit but, at that point, the memory for the larger vector was already allocated. An attacker could cause out-of-memory aborts in Zebra by sending multiple such messages over different connections. This vulnerability is fixed in zebrad version 4.3.0 and zebra-network version 5.0.1.
Affected products2
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- ZcashFoundation · zebrad< 4.3.1
- ZcashFoundation · zebra-network< 5.0.1
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- ZcashFoundation
- Published
- April 2026
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