diff --git a/packages/signer/src/decode.ts b/packages/signer/src/decode.ts
index 43822db..afdafff 100644
--- a/packages/signer/src/decode.ts
+++ b/packages/signer/src/decode.ts
@@ -58,6 +58,28 @@ export function decodeTransaction(cborHex: string): DecodedTx {
     );
   }
 
+  // from_cbor_hex only requires that a *prefix* of cborHex parse as a valid
+  // transaction; it does not check that parsing consumed the whole string, so
+  // trailing bytes would otherwise be silently discarded and produce a
+  // confident, fully-populated result over less data than was actually
+  // supplied. CML preserves the original encoding on parse-then-reserialize
+  // (only objects built from scratch via `.new()` are canonicalised), so
+  // re-serialising and comparing against the input detects any unconsumed
+  // suffix. Compared case-insensitively: valid uppercase-hex input round-trips
+  // through CML as lowercase, which would otherwise read as a mismatch.
+  // Verified empirically (not just by this module's own tests, which lack an
+  // asset-bearing or multi-shape fixture) across: the clean fixture, the
+  // fixture with trailing bytes appended, a fixture-derived transaction with a
+  // real vkey witness attached (the shape sign.ts will produce), and a
+  // fixture-derived transaction with an added output (a structural change) —
+  // strict equality held for every legitimate case and failed only, in the
+  // "input longer than reserialised" direction, for the trailing-bytes case.
+  if (tx.to_cbor_hex().toLowerCase() !== cborHex.toLowerCase()) {
+    throw new Error(
+      'Transaction could not be decoded: input was not fully consumed (unrecognised trailing data)'
+    );
+  }
+
   const body = tx.body();
   const outputs: DecodedOutput[] = [];
   const cmlOutputs = body.outputs();
diff --git a/packages/signer/test/decode.test.ts b/packages/signer/test/decode.test.ts
index eac60ec..f36a54d 100644
--- a/packages/signer/test/decode.test.ts
+++ b/packages/signer/test/decode.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { describe, test } from 'node:test';
 import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import * as CML from '@anastasia-labs/cardano-multiplatform-lib-nodejs';
 import { decodeTransaction } from '../src/decode.ts';
 
 // Real unsigned transaction from Vector testnet. 1 input, 2 outputs
@@ -56,4 +57,43 @@ describe('decodeTransaction', () => {
   test('rejects an empty string', () => {
     assert.throws(() => decodeTransaction(''), /could not be decoded/i);
   });
+
+  // CML's from_cbor_hex only requires that a *prefix* of the input parse as a
+  // valid transaction — it does not check that parsing consumed the whole
+  // string. Left unchecked, appending arbitrary bytes to a real transaction
+  // would silently decode as if those bytes did not exist: a confident,
+  // fully-populated result over less data than was actually supplied. That is
+  // the opposite failure mode from the tests above (which all fail to parse
+  // at all) and is exactly the kind of partial understanding this module must
+  // never hand to policy.
+  describe('unconsumed input (trailing bytes)', () => {
+    test('rejects a transaction with trailing bytes appended', () => {
+      assert.throws(() => decodeTransaction(FIXTURE_CBOR + 'deadbeef'), /could not be decoded/i);
+    });
+
+    test('still accepts the clean fixture (no false positive on legitimate input)', () => {
+      assert.doesNotThrow(() => decodeTransaction(FIXTURE_CBOR));
+    });
+
+    test('still accepts a signed transaction (fixture + a real vkey witness)', () => {
+      const unsigned = CML.Transaction.from_cbor_hex(FIXTURE_CBOR);
+      const body = unsigned.body();
+      const hash = CML.hash_transaction(body);
+      const privateKey = CML.PrivateKey.generate_ed25519();
+      const signature = privateKey.sign(hash.to_raw_bytes());
+
+      const vkeywitnesses = CML.VkeywitnessList.new();
+      vkeywitnesses.add(CML.Vkeywitness.new(privateKey.to_public(), signature));
+      const witnessSet = CML.TransactionWitnessSet.new();
+      witnessSet.set_vkeywitnesses(vkeywitnesses);
+
+      // The same shape sign.ts will produce: original body, a witness set, no
+      // auxiliary data.
+      const signed = CML.Transaction.new(body, witnessSet, true, undefined);
+
+      const decoded = decodeTransaction(signed.to_cbor_hex());
+      assert.equal(decoded.fee, 168223n);
+      assert.equal(decoded.outputs.length, 2);
+    });
+  });
 });