CVE-2026-40092

HIGHNVD 7.57.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-05-15. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
7.5
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS: 1%CVSS: 7.5Exploit: NoneExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

nimiq-blockchain provides persistent block storage for Nimiq's Rust implementation. In versions 1.3.0 and below, a malicious network peer can crash any Nimiq full node by publishing a crafted Kademlia DHT record. The maliciously crafted record would contain a TaggedSigned with a signature field whose byte length is not exactly 64 in order to cause a crash. When the victim node's DHT verifier calls TaggedSigned::verify, execution reaches Ed25519Signature::from_bytes(sig).unwrap() in the TaggedPublicKey implementation for Ed25519PublicKey. The from_bytes call fails because ed25519_zebra::Signature::try_from rejects slices not 64 bytes, and the unwrap() panics. The BLS TaggedPublicKey implementation correctly returns false on error; only the Ed25519 implementation panics. This issue has been fixed in version 1.4.0.

CVSS v3
7.5
EG Score
7.5(medium)
EPSS
45.8%
KEV
Not listed

Published

May 20, 2026

Last Modified

May 21, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Jun 7, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_pr, github_release, github.
github Patch Available

Unchecked Ed25519 signature length in TaggedPublicKey::verify causes remote node panic via DHT · Advisory · nimiq/core-rs-albatross · GitHub

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/security/advisories/GHSA-27w2-87xv-37c6
github_release Patch Available

Mainnet 1.4.0

Patch available: nimiq/core-rs-albatross v1.4.0

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/releases/tag/v1.4.0
github_pr Patch Available

Fix TaggedPublicKey::verify panic on invalid signature length

Patch available: nimiq/core-rs-albatross v1.4.0 (PR #3708 merged 2026-04-22)

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/pull/3708
github_commit Patch Available

commit 807ee8e99a7c (nimiq/core-rs-albatross)

Patch available: nimiq/core-rs-albatross v1.4.0 (contains commit 807ee8e99a7c)

https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/commit/807ee8e99a7ccdc604d49971f292854bfa36754d

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-40092(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
rustnimiq-keys—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
crates.io(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFixed inDependents
nimiq-keys———

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-40092?
CVE-2026-40092 is a high vulnerability published on May 20, 2026. nimiq-blockchain provides persistent block storage for Nimiq's Rust implementation. In versions 1.3.0 and below, a malicious network peer can crash any Nimiq full node by publishing a crafted Kademlia DHT record. The maliciously crafted record would contain a TaggedSigned<ValidatorRecord, KeyPair>…
When was CVE-2026-40092 disclosed?
CVE-2026-40092 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on May 20, 2026, with the most recent update on May 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-40092 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-40092 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 45.8% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-40092?
CVE-2026-40092 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-40092?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-40092, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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