CVE-2026-47180: medium-severity vulnerability in python-zeroconf
Zeroconf: Unbounded recursion in DNS compression-pointer decoder allows LAN-local denial of service
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.4%
Zeroconf is a pure Python implementation of multicast DNS service discovery. Prior to 0.149.5, DNSIncoming._decode_labels_at_offset recurses once per DNS-name compression pointer, and a single mDNS packet carrying chained pointers can trigger a RecursionError that escapes DNSIncoming.__init__, causing sustained CPU burn, log flooding, and degraded mDNS-dependent features for unauthenticated hosts on the local link over UDP/5353 (224.0.0.251 / ff02::fb). This issue is fixed in version 0.149.5.
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
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References
https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/commit/f9e23592137f30fdf7ef710dba065da31c79b1cfhttps://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/pull/1719https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/releases/tag/0.149.5https://github.com/python-zeroconf/python-zeroconf/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgc-3ccv-5297