CVE-2026-40011 (GCVE-0-2026-40011)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 12:22 – Updated: 2026-06-25 13:23
VLAI
Title
Prometheus denial of service via crafted DNS queries
Summary
An attacker sending a large number of crafted DNS queries might be able to trigger a dynamic block being inserted with a value causing invalid output to be produced in the prometheus endpoint. The prometheus endpoint will then be rejected by the scraper until the dynamic block expires.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-06-25 13:23 UTC
CWE
  • Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
  • CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
PowerDNS DNSdist Affected: 1.9.0 , < 1.9.15 (semver)
Affected: 2.0.0 , < 2.0.7 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-06-24 22:00
Credits
Haruki Oyama (Waseda University)
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