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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-11636

Zcash 2.x allows an inexpensive approach to "fill all transactions of all blocks" and "prevent any real transaction from occurring" via a "Sapling Wood-Chipper" attack.

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CVE-2019-11636
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31 Oct 2026, 10:59 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-11636

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 May 2019, 17:29 UTC

Zcash 2.x allows an inexpensive approach to "fill all transactions of all blocks" and "prevent any real transaction from occurring" via a "Sapling Wood-Chipper" attack.

osv:CVE-2019-11636
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-11636",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-11636",
    "summary": "Zcash 2.x allows an inexpensive approach to \"fill all transactions of all blocks\" and \"prevent any real transaction from occurring\" via a \"Sapling Wood-Chipper\" attack.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-11636",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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      ],
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                        "last_affected": "2.0.4"
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                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:z.cash:zcash:2.0.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
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                        "introduced": "2.0.5-rc1"
                      },
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                        "last_affected": "2.0.5-rc1"
                      }
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            "v2.0.3-rc1",
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            "v2.0.4-rc1",
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            "v2.0.2",
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          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:52:19.159682081Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://saplingwoodchipper.github.io",
        "https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/3955",
        "https://twitter.com/dukeleto/status/1120467430118232066"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2019-11636",
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 383551,
  "published_at": "2019-05-01T17:29:00.23+00:00"
}