CVE-2026-123584 PUBLISHED

Hickory-DNS 0.26.0 before 0.26.2 UDP Client Denial of Service via Spoofed Responses

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 06.11.2026 Published: 08.11.2026 Updated: 08.11.2026

The hickory-net crate in Hickory DNS 0.26.0 before 0.26.2 stops listening and returns an error when a client UDP connection receives a datagram that cannot be parsed as a DNS message. Remote attackers who guess the query's source port, without knowing the transaction ID, can spoof malformed responses to abort client queries, causing denial of service.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor hickory-dns
Product hickory-dns
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.26.0 to 0.26.2 (excl.)
  • Version 0.26.2 is unaffected

Credits

  • qifan-sailboat reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Incorrect Behavior Order CWE