CVE-2026-42004: low-severity vulnerability in PowerDNS DNSdist
EDNS options smuggling
Published
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.7epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 88% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
An attacker can send a crafted EDNS OPT record that will be ignored by DNSdist’s filtering rules, but will be rewritten as a valid OPT record when EDNS Client Subnet is inserted, causing the backend to see the EDNS option(s) that DNSdist did not filter.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
PowerDNS · DNSdistRelated CVEs — PowerDNS DNSdist
In the same product, most dangerous first.
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