# CVE-2026-88255: mpp Tempo keys its pre-broadcast dedup reserve on the caller-supplied transaction encoding, so a re-encoded signed transaction reserves a second slot

- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.16.2
- Published: 2026-09-16 · Updated: 2026-09-16

## Affected

- mpp: from 0.2.0, fixed in 0.16.2
- zenhive/mpp: version range not reported

## Description

Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in Input in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to pass the Tempo duplicate-submission gate twice with one signed transaction. MPP.Methods.Tempo reserves the pre-broadcast dedup slot on the caller-supplied hex in reserve_hash_atomic/2, keyed through store_key/1 on tx.raw rather than on a canonical form of the transaction. The deserializer stores the caller's hex verbatim and accepts both recovery-id encodings, so one signed transaction submitted once with v=27 and once with v=0 yields two distinct reserve keys, and both pass the reserve and reach the broadcast path. The plug-level credential replay store is deliberately carved out for tempo in lib/mpp/replay.ex, leaving this reserve as the only gate, and the post-broadcast mark writes the canonical hash key that the raw-keyed reserve never reads. What the duplicate submission yields depends on the node: a nonce-reuse rejection fails closed, while a node that answers with the canonical hash for an already-known transaction returns a second valid Payment-Receipt for a single on-chain payment. This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.16.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on mpp, zenhive/mpp, upgrade to a fixed version (0.16.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/ZenHive/mpp/security/advisories/GHSA-8x7x-5j8g-8hcx
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-88255.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-88255
- https://github.com/ZenHive/mpp/commit/f8904666061fbab695874856d8fcd02c471dfe1b
- https://github.com/ZenHive/mpp/commit/e12bd4a1cea2e97c2a01fc059c48e5594a7b4a43

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