FKIE_CVE-2026-33596

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-22 14:16 - Updated: 2026-04-24 18:50
Severity ?
3.1 (Low) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
A client might theoretically be able to cause a mismatch between queries sent to a backend and the received responses by sending a flood of perfectly timed queries that are routed to a TCP-only or DNS over TLS backend.
References
security@open-xchange.comhttps://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2026-04.htmlVendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
powerdns dnsdist *
powerdns dnsdist *
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