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High 7.5Published Apr 22, 2026

CVE-2026-33258By publishing and querying a crafted zone an attacker can cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressive NSEC(3) caches.

Updated under an hour ago ()

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It affects powerdns recursor. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

By publishing and querying a crafted zone an attacker can cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressive NSEC(3) caches.

CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-770
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
powerdns recursor
powerdns:recursor
from 5.2.0 before 5.2.9; from 5.3.0 before 5.3.6; 5.4.0
NVD

References

  • broken-link, vendor-advisory

The CVE record is authoritative. Products marked “from the name” were identified from the CNA's free-text names, not a CPE, and are matched less certainly. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.

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