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AIKIDO-2026-238018

risc0-zkp is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Jul 22, 2026

53

Medium Risk

This Affects:

RUSTrisc0-zkp
0.11.0 - 3.0.4
Fixed in 3.0.5
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TL;DR

The proof verification code in risc0-zkp reads fields, digests, and the po2 parameter out of the seal without fully validating their length or contents. A crafted or truncated seal can trigger out-of-bounds index operations, failed assertions, and invalid field-element conversions, causing the verifier to panic instead of returning a verification error. An attacker who supplies a malformed proof to a verifier can abort verification and crash the hosting process or thread. The fix converts the affected IOP-read, Merkle, and hash paths to fallible APIs and validates digests and po2 before use.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and your application verifies proofs or seals originating from untrusted sources.

Background info

risc0-zkp is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.11.0 - 3.0.4.

How to fix this

Upgrade the risc0-zkp library to the patch version.

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