AIKIDO-2026-10903
nimiq-primitives is vulnerable to Denial of Service
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High Risk
This Affects:
nimiq-primitivesTL;DR
Affected versions are vulnerable to a remote unauthenticated denial-of-service vulnerability in MerkleRadixTrie::put_chunk. A malicious state-sync peer can send a crafted chunk containing an invalid root key item that triggers a panic during trie insertion, causing the node process to crash. The issue affects nodes performing state synchronization with untrusted peers, including newly joining or recovering nodes.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
nimiq-primitives is vulnerable to Denial of Service in versions 0.0.1 - 1.4.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the nimiq-primitives library to the patch version.
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