CVE-2026-33608

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 80/100
Published: 2026-04-22 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

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

Description

An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes said backend to update its configuration to an invalid one, leading to the backend no longer able to run on the next restart, requiring manual operation to fix it.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
powerdns authoritative 4.9.0 – 4.9.14
powerdns authoritative 5.0.0 – 5.0.4

Bug Bounty Relevance

80 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.8 / 10.0 v3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.38%
Raw Score 0.003830
Percentile 32.2%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00383
2026-10-28
0.00383

Intelligence Sources

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