CVE-2026-33596

MEDIUM
MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 58/100
Published: 2026-04-22 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Adjacent Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Adjacent
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
S: Unchanged
C: None
I: None
A: High

Description

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
powerdns dnsdist 1.9.0 – 1.9.13
powerdns dnsdist 2.0.0 – 2.0.4

Bug Bounty Relevance

58 / 100
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

6.5 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.17%
Raw Score 0.001690
Percentile 6.3%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00169
2026-10-28
0.00169

Intelligence Sources

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