OpenVM is a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility.
CVE-2026-62333
OpenVM is a performant and modular zkVM framework built for customization and extensibility. Before 1.7.0 in the 1.x line and in affected 2.0 and 2.1 prereleases, MemoryMerkleAir does not forbid Merkle expansion rows at parentheight = 0 or below while expanddirection != 0. A malicious prover can fabricate a subtree below a memory leaf and swap digests inside that subtree to change the committed memory root without a corresponding memory operation. The fraudulent rows still balance against the Merkle and compression buses and require no memory-bus operation for the changed leaf. Because the memory Merkle root binds VM memory state across continuation segment boundaries, this affects the soundness of OpenVM proofs using persistent memory. This issue is fixed in versions 1.7.0, 2.0.0-rc.3 and 2.1.0-preview.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.7 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 30 October 2026
- Last updated
- 5 November 2026
- Affected
- openvm-org · openvm
- Assigner
- GitHub_M
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/security/advisories/GHSA-396x-v8w4-9x82
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/pull/148
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/commit/bb123f6073691bd2b794171c594264c77e45c376
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/blob/v2.0.0-alpha/crates/vm/src/system/memory/merkle/air.rs
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/blob/v2.0.0-beta.2/crates/vm/src/system/memory/merkle/air.rs
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/blob/v2.1.0-dev.0/crates/vm/src/system/memory/merkle/air.rs
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/releases/tag/v1.7.0
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/releases/tag/v2.0.0-rc.3
- https://github.com/openvm-org/openvm/releases/tag/v2.1.0-preview
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