Non-atomic hash-credential dedup in mpp Tempo allows replay of a confirmed payment under a concurrent race
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · Low · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to redeem one confirmed on-chain payment for multiple paid-resource accesses. The type="hash" credential path in MPP.Methods.Tempo.verify/2 guards against replay with a non-atomic check-then-mark sequence: check_hash_unused/2 reads the dedup store, an eth_getTransactionReceipt round trip verifies the payment on chain, and only then does mark_hash_used/2 write the mark. Concurrent requests carrying the same settled payment hash all pass the read before any of them writes, so each is issued a receipt. The store's atomic check_and_mark/2 primitive is available and used by the type="transaction" path, but the hash path calls plain get and put even when the configured store implements it. Exploitation requires a dedup store to be configured; the default nil store is stateless and documented as offering no replay protection at all. This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.6.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA mpp (ZenHive) Fixed in 0.6.1
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-73829
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vjfr-ffhr-5g8p
References
More ZenHive Machine Payments Protocol vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-47746 On-chain transfer proof is not single-use in mpp EVM payment method, enabling cross-challenge replay CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-51635 Resource allocation without limits in ZenHive mpp CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-51302 Static memo configuration in mpp Tempo disables per-challenge attribution binding, enabling third-party replay CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
Sources
- CVE-2026-73829 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-73829 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vjfr-ffhr-5g8p · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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