GHSA-49xc-52mp-cc9jCriticalCVSS 9.1

nimiq-blockchain is missing a wall-clock upper bound on block timestamps

Published
April 10, 2026
Last Modified
April 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Block timestamp validation enforces that timestamp >= parent.timestamp for non-skip blocks and timestamp == parent.timestamp + MIN_PRODUCER_TIMEOUT for skip blocks, but there is no visible upper bound check against the wall clock. A malicious block-producing validator can set block timestamps arbitrarily far in the future. This directly affects reward calculations via Policy::supply_at() and batch_delay() in blockchain/src/reward.rs, inflating the monetary supply beyond the intended emission schedule.

Patches

TBD

Workarounds

No know workarounds.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/nimiq-blockchain:<= 1.3.0

🔗 References (3)