Unbounded key authorization in mpp Tempo fee-payer sponsorship inflates gas cost and sponsors access-key provisioning
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · High · Low
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in ZenHive mpp allows an unauthenticated remote client to inflate the fee-payer's gas cost per sponsored payment by a large multiplier and to have the sponsor pay for provisioning an access key on the client's own account. When the server sponsors Tempo payments, MPP.Methods.Tempo.FeePayerPolicy.measure/3 in lib/mpp/methods/tempo/fee_payer_policy.ex bounds the gas fields, the fee budget, the validity window and the access list of the client-signed 0x76 envelope, but does not check whether the envelope carries the optional key_authorization field. A client can attach a fully signed key authorization, provisioning a new access key with token spending limits on its own account, alongside the normal payment call. The key and each limit entry are persistent storage writes billed as intrinsic gas to the sponsor, bounded only by the gas_limit ceiling. At the reporter's default of one key with three token limits the sponsored cost rises from about 46,587 gas to about 1,808,700 gas, and the client keeps a valid access key it paid nothing for. This issue affects mpp: from 0.2.0 before 0.16.1.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
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Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZenHive | mpp | 0.2.0 to before 0.16.1 | 0.16.1 | Patch available | CNA |
- mpp VendorZenHive Affected 0.2.0 to before 0.16.1 Fixed in 0.16.1 Patch available CNA
CPE names CNA · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:ZenHive:mpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | — | — | — |
- cpe:2.3:a:ZenHive:mpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·—
Remediation
- Fix · CNA mpp (ZenHive) Fixed in 0.16.1
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
ZenHive mpp 0.16.1, 0482572b47e1ffe1537ab80ab613d47b92833c2d
2 records Highest priority Priority LOW 2 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-57068 Unbounded EIP-7702 authorization list in mpp Tempo fee-payer sponsorship inflates gas…Priority LOW 37
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-82751
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6fjm-7mv9-c325
References
More ZenHive vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-42571 Unbounded max_fee_per_gas in mpp Tempo fee-payer enables single-request wallet drain CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-42570 Unbounded access list in mpp Tempo fee-payer inflates gas cost per payment CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.3
- TI-2026-42392 Missing gas_limit validation in mpp Tempo fee-payer enables wallet drain CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2026-60473 Session voucher adding no new funds is accepted without a charge in mpp, serving paid resources for free CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.1
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-82751 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-82751 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-6fjm-7mv9-c325 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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