AIKIDO-2026-10907
nimiq-keys is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)
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High Risk
This Affects:
nimiq-keysTL;DR
Affected versions are vulnerable to a remote denial-of-service issue in Nimiq full nodes caused by improper validation of Ed25519 signature lengths in crafted Kademlia DHT records. A malicious peer can send a malformed signature that triggers a panic during verification, causing the node to crash.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
nimiq-keys is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.0.1 - 1.3.0.
How to fix this
Upgrade the nimiq-keys library to the patch version.
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