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CVE-2026-123594

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 73/100
Published: 2026-11-08 Modified: 2026-11-10 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: Present
VC: None
VI: Low
VA: Low

Description

Hickory DNS hickory-proto through 0.26.0-alpha.1 and hickory-net 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 contain an NSEC validation flaw that returns a secure proof for NXDOMAIN responses when the covering NSEC's Next Domain Name is a strict descendant of the query name, which actually proves the name exists as an empty non-terminal. On-path attackers can flip the unsigned rcode of a genuine signed NODATA response from NOERROR to NXDOMAIN, causing validators to accept forged nonexistence of the name.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (4)

VendorProductVersion
hickory-dns hickory-dns 0
hickory-dns hickory-dns 0.26.0-beta.1 < 0.26.2
hickory-dns hickory-dns 0
hickory-dns hickory-dns 0.26.0-beta.1 < 0.26.2

References & Advisories (2)

Bug Bounty Relevance

73 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.3 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/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

0.12%
Raw Score 0.001200
Percentile 1.8%
Date 2026-11-13

EPSS Trend

2026-11-13
0.00120
2026-11-12
0.00120
2026-11-10
0.00120
2026-11-09
0.00120
2026-11-08
0.00120

Intelligence Sources

mitre ref →
nvd ref →

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