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CVE-2026-123606

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-08

Description

The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote attackers can serve such referrals to force A and AAAA lookups per target, amplifying traffic against remote servers or exhausting recursor resources.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-400

References