FKIE_CVE-2026-24029

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-03-31 12:16 - Updated: 2026-07-25 10:10
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
When the early_acl_drop (earlyACLDrop in Lua) option is disabled (default is enabled) on a DNS over HTTPs frontend using the nghttp2 provider, the ACL check is skipped, allowing all clients to send DoH queries regardless of the configured ACL.
References
security@open-xchange.comhttps://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2026-02.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
powerdns dnsdist *
powerdns dnsdist *
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