Zcash Patches Four Critical Vulnerabilities Across Both Full-Node Implementations

TLDR: Security researcher Alex “Scalar” Sol reported four Zcash vulnerabilities on April 4, 2026, via coordinated disclosure channels. A crafted Orchard transaction with an all-zeros randomized key could crash any reachable zcashd or Zebra node instantly. A turnstile accounting bug introduced in zcashd v5.10.0 could be triggered by routine peer-to-peer duplicate block headers. Mining pools [...]

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