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CVE-2026-123588

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.03 BB Relevance: 77/100
Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-08 First seen: 2026-11-08 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: X
AT: None
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

The recursive resolver in Hickory DNS (all versions of the hickory-recursor crate, and hickory-resolver 0.26.0 before 0.26.2) caches an empty connection pool when it follows a referral with no glue records and all queries for the name servers' IP addresses fail. An attacker able to spoof DNS responses can make these lookups fail, causing all subsequent queries for the affected zone to fail until the cache entry expires or is evicted.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
hickory-dns hickory-dns 0
hickory-dns hickory-dns 0.26.0 < 0.26.2

References & Advisories (2)

Bug Bounty Relevance

77 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.7 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.34%
Raw Score 0.003430
Percentile 28.1%
Date 2026-11-08

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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