CVE-2026-33610mediumCWE-400

CVE-2026-33610: medium-severity vulnerability in PowerDNS Authoritative

Possible file descriptor exhaustion in forward-dnsupdate

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13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.4%
A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
PowerDNS · Authoritative
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