CVE-2026-42004

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
PowerDNSDNSdist1.9.0 < 1.9.15affected
PowerDNSDNSdist2.0.0 < 2.0.7affected

Weaknesses

  • Misinterpretation of Input

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References