Intel/AIKIDO-2026-10906
nimiq-blockchain
AIKIDO-2026-10906
nimiq-blockchain is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)
Denial of Service (DoS)CVE-2026-46543 Published 6 days ago
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
nimiq-blockchain0.0.1 - 1.4.0
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TL;DR
Affected versions are vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service issue where a peer can crash a full node by sending a RequestBatchSet message containing the genesis block hash. Processing the request triggers a panic when the code attempts to access a macro block before the genesis block.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
nimiq-blockchain is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.1 - 1.4.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the nimiq-blockchain library to the patch version.
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