CVE-2026-123555 (CVSS 7.5)

Description

Zebra from 2.3.0 before 7.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated peers to evade misbehavior scoring by sending transactions or blocks with invalid transparent scripts. Attackers can flood mempool with script-failing transactions or serve forged v5 block bodies with altered scriptSig bytes to exhaust CPU and repeatedly stall block sync.

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CVSS v3.1 Score

7.5

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploit Prediction

0.0043

Probability of exploitation

0.38%

Percentile rank

EPSS estimates the probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. A higher score means more likely to be exploited.

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-755 CWE-755

References

Other References

https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/commit/e8db87eb69254e0d4eedd058eadd48bdfa09065a https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-jq45-ghw5-v37x https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/zebra-2.3.0-before-7.0.0-denial-of-service-via-unscored-script-verification-failures

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2026-123555? +

Zebra from 2.3.0 before 7.0.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows unauthenticated peers to evade misbehavior scoring by sending transactions or blocks with invalid transparent scripts. Attackers can flood mempool with script-failing transactions or serve forged v5 block bodies with altered scriptSig bytes to exhaust CPU and repeatedly stall block sync. It has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

How severe is CVE-2026-123555? +

CVE-2026-123555 has a CVSS v3.1 score of 7.5 out of 10, rated HIGH. This is a high-severity vulnerability that should be prioritized for patching. The EPSS score is 0.0043, placing it in the 0th percentile for exploitation probability.

How do I check if I'm vulnerable to CVE-2026-123555? +

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