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CVE-2026-52733 json

ZEBRA: Persistent on-disk corruption of Sapling/Orchard subtree roots after chain fork via pop_tip

published 4mo ago modified 2d ago also EUVD-2026-61168 , GHSA-2gf8-q9rr-jq3h

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, a natural or attacker-influenced chain fork can leave stale Sapling and Orchard note-commitment subtree roots in Zebra state. In zebra-state/src/service/non_finalized_state/chain.rs, Chain::pop_tip removed a reverted tip block but did not remove subtree entries whose end_height belonged to that block, unlike the cleanup performed by pop_root. When the winning fork later finalized, the abandoned branch's stale subtree data could be written to RocksDB and survive node restarts. The corrupted history can cause z_getsubtreesbyindex consumers such as lightwalletd and light wallets to receive incorrect subtree roots, producing wallet synchronization failures or incorrect wallet state and requiring a full state rebuild for recovery. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io zebra-state 7.0.0
  • crates.io zebrad 4.5.0
  • zfnd zebra 4.5.0
  • zfnd zebrad 4.5.0
  • zfnd zebra-state 7.0.0

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io zebra-state
<7.0.0
7.0.0
crates.io zebrad
<4.5.0
4.5.0

Affected products

  • ZcashFoundation zebra
  • ZcashFoundation zebra-state

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-459 Incomplete Cleanup
  • CWE-672 Operation on a Resource after Expiration or Release

References

Sources

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