🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-42004

LOW 3.7

EDNS options smuggling

CVSS Score
3.7
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

Vendor powerdns
Product dnsdist
Published Jun 25, 2026
Last Updated Jun 25, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None

Affected Versions

PowerDNS / DNSdist
1.9.0 < 1.9.15 2.0.0 < 2.0.7

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
dnsdist.org: https://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2026-09.html

Credits

Vitaly Simonovich