# CVE-2026-34065: nimiq-primitives: Node crash due to missing interlink validation in election macro block proposals

- Also known as: GHSA-7C4J-2M43-2MGH
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.3.0
- Published: 2026-04-22 · Updated: 2026-04-23

## Affected

- nimiq nimiq-primitives: fixed in 1.3.0
- nimiq-primitives (crates.io): through 0.2.0

## Description

nimiq-primitives contains primitives (e.g., block, account, transaction) to be used in Nimiq's Rust implementation. Prior to version 1.3.0, an untrusted p2p peer can cause a node to panic by announcing an election macro block whose `validators` set contains an invalid compressed BLS voting key. Hashing an election macro header hashes `validators` and reaches `Validators::voting_keys()`, which calls `validator.voting_key.uncompress().unwrap()` and panics on invalid bytes. The patch for this vulnerability is included as part of v1.3.0. No known workarounds are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nimiq nimiq-primitives, nimiq-primitives, upgrade to a fixed version (1.3.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/security/advisories/GHSA-7c4j-2m43-2mgh
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/pull/3662
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/commit/e10eaebcd7774e5da6d0ff5e88ed13503474f0ff
- https://github.com/nimiq/core-rs-albatross/releases/tag/v1.3.0

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