CVE-2026-123599: medium-severity vulnerability in hickory-dns
Hickory DNS before 0.26.0-beta.1 DNSSEC Validation Bypass via Non-IN Class Records
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.1%
Hickory DNS hickory-proto before 0.26.0-beta.1 and hickory-net before 0.26.2 contain a DNSSEC validation bypass because verify_rrsets() ignores DNS class when partitioning RRsets, so non-IN records skip signature verification yet are marked secure when the IN records verify. Attackers able to supply DNS responses can include forged CH or HS class records, including DS records, to authenticate any DNSKEY and forge child zone responses.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
hickory-dns · hickory-dnsRelated CVEs — hickory-dns
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-123608HIGHHickory DNS hickory-proto 0.3.1 before 0.26.1 CPU Exhaustion via BinEncoder Name CompressionEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-123606HIGHHickory-DNS Recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 Glueless-NS Referral AmplificationEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-123577HIGHHickory DNS 0.24.0 before 0.26.2 DoH Unbounded Request Body Denial of ServiceEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-123576HIGHHickory DNS 0.24.0 through 0.26.1 Memory Exhaustion via DNS-over-QUIC RequestsEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-123575HIGHHickory DNS before 0.26.2 DoH Memory Exhaustion via Incomplete Request BodiesEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-123571HIGHHickory DNS from 0.26.0 before 0.26.2 Panic via TSIG RDATA DecodingEPSS 0.4%