CVE-2026-72704 - Rocq Prover through 9.2.0 Guard Checker Trusts Corrupted Recursive Tree After Transport
Brief
CVE ID : CVE-2026-72704
Published : Aug. 24, 2026, 8:17 p. m.
- 54 minutes ago
Description : The guard checker in Rocq Prover does not recheck the recursive tree representation of an inductive type parameter after that parameter has been changed by transport. A fixpoint may apply a rewrite along an equality between types to its recursive argument, which the guard checker accepts because the inductive type is preserved, while the recursive tree recorded for the parameter is altered.
A second fixpoint that calls the first inherits the altered recursive tree without verification, so a call that is not structurally decreasing is accepted as terminating. The resulting non-terminating definition proves that a natural number equals its own successor and therefore False, from which any proposition follows.