High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11636
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:59 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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