NRDAX-T0350 - Unsolicited Block State Poisoning

consensus_abuse · active · first seen 2026-07-01

provenance: Reproduced in NullRabbit's attack-reproduction pipeline

mechanism

CVE-2024-52921: unrequested merkle-mismatched block erases other peers' download state → hinders propagation

instances (2)

chain	primitive	fidelity	origin	reproducer (bundle)	source
bitcoin	btc_mutated_block	lab	reverse-engineered-cve	btc_mutated_block	bitcoincore.org ↗
cosmos	cometbft_blocksync_malicious_peer	proxy	reverse-engineered-cve	cometbft_blocksync_malicious_peer	https://github.com/cometbft/cometbft/security/advisories/GHSA-hg58-rf2h-6rr7 ↗

references

ghsa: GHSA-382w-958v-m5jr

related (consensus_abuse)

NRDAX-T0024 - Compact Block FillBlock Duplicate Crash active NRDAX-T0056 - Duplicate Input Validation-Bypass Crash active NRDAX-T0143 - Malformed Field Gossip Before Validation active NRDAX-T0165 - Missing Zero-Guard Divide-By-Zero Halt active NRDAX-T0202 - Peer Timestamp Skew Manipulation active NRDAX-T0207 - Pre-Verify Gossip Flood active NRDAX-T0211 - Premature Processing Index-Out-Of-Range Panic active NRDAX-T0298 - Timestamp Integer Overflow Netsplit active

cite

https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0350

plain

NRDAX Registry. Technique NRDAX-T0350.

bibtex

@misc{nrdax_NRDAX_T0350,
  title = {Unsolicited Block State Poisoning (NRDAX-T0350)},
  howpublished = {NRDAX Registry},
  url = {https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0350},
}

json (csl)

{
  "id": "nrdax-NRDAX-T0350",
  "type": "dataset",
  "title": "Unsolicited Block State Poisoning (NRDAX-T0350)",
  "URL": "https://nrdax.com/techniques/NRDAX-T0350",
  "publisher": "NRDAX Registry"
}