The guard checker in Rocq Prover treats a parameter of a nested mutual fixpoint as uniform without examining calls between the different bodies of that fixpoint. find_uniform_parameters in kernel/inductive.ml inspects only self-recursive calls, so when no body calls itself the function concludes that every parameter is uniform. A parameter that grows through a cross-call from one body to another therefore keeps the subterm specification it inherited from the enclosing fixpoint, and a recursive call guarded by that specification is accepted although the argument is not structurally smaller. A non-terminating definition is admitted as structurally decreasing, which yields a term whose value equals its own successor and so a proof of False, from which any proposition follows. The proof requires no axioms, plugins or unsafe flags and Print Assumptions reports it as closed under the global context. Introduced in Coq 8.20 and fixed in Rocq 9.2.0.
CVE-2026-72703
Score 6.3 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.3; sources differ by 0.0.
- 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
- 6.3
- EG Score
- 6.3(high)
- EG Risk
- 33(Track)EG Risk 33/100SSVC: Track
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How it’s computedSeverity63% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 24, 2026
Last Modified
August 24, 2026
Advisory Details (5)
Auto-updated Aug 24, 2026Rocq Prover 8.20 before 9.2.0 Guard Checker Accepts Non-Terminating Fixpoint via Unchecked Cross-Calls | Advisories | VulnCheck
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/rocq-prover-before-guard-checker-accepts-non-terminating-fixpoint-via-unchecked-cross-callsFix issues with uniform arguments of inner fixpoints in guard condition
Patch available: rocq-prover/rocq V9.3+rc1 (PR #21684 merged 2026-03-04)
https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/pull/21684Guard checker soundness bug: cross-calls in nested mutual fixpoints · Issue #21682 · rocq-prover/rocq · GitHub
https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocq/issues/21682GitHub - rocq-prover/rocq: The Rocq Prover is an interactive theorem prover, or proof assistant. It provides a formal language to write mathematical definitions, executable algorithms and theorems together with an environment for semi-interactive development of machine-checked proofs. · GitHub
https://github.com/rocq-prover/rocqGitHub - endrazine/rocq-cve-poc-21682 · GitHub
https://github.com/endrazine/rocq-cve-poc-21682Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72703(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 6× in last 7d / 6× in last 30d)
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- 2026-08-25 21:41 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-25 21:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-24 20:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-24 20:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-24 20:11 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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