ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, an attacker authenticated to an enabled Zebra RPC endpoint can terminate zebrad by supplying a getblocktemplate LongPollId containing multi-byte UTF-8 characters. In zebra-rpc/src/methods/types/long_poll.rs, LongPollId::from_str originally checked the input byte length and then sliced fixed byte ranges to parse encoded fields. A slice boundary can land inside a multi-byte character and trigger Rust's byte index is not a char boundary panic. Zebra release builds use panic equals abort, so one malformed authenticated RPC request terminates the entire node process and can be repeated after restart. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.
CVE-2026-52731
This medium-severity CVE scores 6.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4%, top 70% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(medium)
- EG Risk
- 29(Track)EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity65% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 30%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 2, 2026
Last Modified
August 18, 2026
Advisory Details (3)
Auto-updated Aug 18, 2026Zebra 4.5.0
Patch available: ZcashFoundation/zebra v4.5.0
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/releases/tag/v4.5.0commit 1440b43ca7df (ZcashFoundation/zebra)
Patch available: ZcashFoundation/zebra v4.5.0 (contains commit 1440b43ca7df)
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/commit/1440b43ca7df59aca948090d45117557b217a6cdFull node denial of service via non-ASCII LongPollId in getblocktemplate · Advisory · ZcashFoundation/zebra · GitHub
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-qv2r-v3mx-f4pfVendor Advisories for CVE-2026-52731(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 14× in last 30d)
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.
- 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-25 13:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-24 10:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-23 06:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-22 06:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-21 04:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 04:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 17:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 20:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 19:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-30 19:13 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-26 13:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-23 03:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 20:07 UTCEG score recompute
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