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CVE-2026-33258

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CVE-2026-33258

Published: Apr 22, 2026

Modified: Apr 22, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

5.3

MEDIUM

Description

By publishing and querying a crafted zone an attacker can cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressive NSEC(3) caches.

VendorProductVersions

PowerDNS

Recursor

affected
5.4.0 - < 5.4.1
affected
5.3.0 - < 5.3.6
affected
5.2.0 - < 5.2.9

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

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