High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 27, 2026· Updated Oct 27, 2026
CVE-2026-117601
CVE-2026-117601
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.
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