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CVE-2026-123591

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.9 Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-08

Description

Hickory DNS hickory-net 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 and hickory-proto through 0.26.0-alpha.1 fail to verify, per RFC 6840 §4.4, that an NSEC or NSEC3 record denying a DS RRset also proves the delegation's NS record exists. Attackers can reuse child-side NSEC or NSEC3 records to fake an insecure delegation and forge child-zone records.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-345

References