# CVE-2026-52829: ZEBRA: IPv4-Mapped Mempool Misbehavior Update Aborts Zebra Address Book

- Also known as: GHSA-63WG-WJJJ-7CP8
- 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: 4.5.0, 7.0.0
- Published: 2026-08-18 · Updated: 2026-08-18

## Affected

- ZcashFoundation zebra: fixed in 4.5.0
- zebra-network (crates.io): fixed in 7.0.0
- zebrad (crates.io): fixed in 4.5.0

## Description

ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, an unauthenticated IPv4 peer can deterministically terminate a synced Zebra node using the default Linux dual-stack listener configuration. The handshake path canonicalized an IPv4-mapped IPv6 PeerSocketAddr such as ::ffff:127.0.0.1 to plain IPv4 before storing it through MetaAddr::new_connected, but the mempool misbehavior path forwarded the raw transient address to MetaAddrChange::UpdateMisbehavior. In zebra-network/src/meta_addr.rs, apply_to_meta_addr then compared the canonical address-book entry with the raw update address and reached its unexpected address mismatch assertion. After the misbehavior batch flush, panic equals abort terminated zebrad; the peer only needed to complete a P2P handshake and advertise an invalid mempool transaction. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ZcashFoundation zebra, zebra-network, zebrad, upgrade to a fixed version (4.5.0, 7.0.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-63wg-wjjj-7cp8
- https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/commit/1440b43ca7df59aca948090d45117557b217a6cd
- https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/releases/tag/v4.5.0

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