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Critical 9.3Published May 8, 2026

CVE-2026-44497ZEBRA: Consensus Divergence in Transparent Sighash Hash-Type Handling due to Stale Buffer

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It affects ZcashFoundation zebra and 2 other products. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to zebrad version 4.4.0 and prior to zebra-script version 6.0.0, the fix for CVE-2026-41583 introduced a separate issue due to insufficient error handling of the case where the sighash type is invalid, during sighash computation. Instead of returning an error, the normal flow would resume, and the input sighash buffer would be left untouched. In scenarios where a previous signature validation could leave a valid sighash in the buffer, an invalid hash-type could be incorrectly accepted, which would create a consensus split between Zebra and zcashd nodes. This issue has been patched in zebrad version 4.4.0 and zebra-script version 6.0.0.

CVSS
9.3 CRITICAL (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:H/SA:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-347
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
GitHub_M
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
May 8, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
ZcashFoundation zebra
zcashfoundation:zebra (from the name)
zebra-script < 6.0.0; zebrad < 4.4.0
CNA record
zfnd zebra-script
zfnd:zebra-script
before 6.0.0
NVD
zfnd zebrad
zfnd:zebrad
before 4.4.0
NVD

References

References

The CVE record is authoritative. Products marked “from the name” were identified from the CNA's free-text names, not a CPE, and are matched less certainly. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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