Medium severity · published Aug 18, 2026
CVE-2026-52733
ZEBRA: Persistent on-disk corruption of Sapling/Orchard subtree roots after chain fork via pop_tip
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
ZEBRA is a Zcash node written entirely in Rust. Prior to 4.5.0, a natural or attacker-influenced chain fork can leave stale Sapling and Orchard note-commitment subtree roots in Zebra state. In zebra-state/src/service/non_finalized_state/chain.rs, Chain::pop_tip removed a reverted tip block but did not remove subtree entries whose end_height belonged to that block, unlike the cleanup performed by pop_root. When the winning fork later finalized, the abandoned branch's stale subtree data could be written to RocksDB and survive node restarts. The corrupted history can cause z_getsubtreesbyindex consumers such as lightwalletd and light wallets to receive incorrect subtree roots, producing wallet synchronization failures or incorrect wallet state and requiring a full state rebuild for recovery. This issue is fixed in version 4.5.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 38% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ZE
zebra · ZcashFoundation
< 4.5.0 · source: vendor
ZE
zebra-state · ZcashFoundation
< 7.0.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52733
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-52733
github.com
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/commit/1440b43ca7df59aca948090d45117557b217a6cd
github.com
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/releases/tag/v4.5.0
github.com
https://github.com/ZcashFoundation/zebra/security/advisories/GHSA-2gf8-q9rr-jq3h
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