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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.3 Critical

CVE-2026-117601

Electrum before 4.8.3 Missing Signature Verification of Mempool Transactions

Description

Electrum before 4.8.3 fails to verify signatures of wallet-owned inputs in unconfirmed mempool transactions, allowing malicious servers to replace a just-broadcast transaction with a conflicting one. Attackers can swallow the user's transaction and display an invalid zero-fee copy paying an attacker address, tricking users into RBF fee-bumping and signing it.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

spesmilo electrum

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 4.8.3affected
  • 4.8.3unaffected

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