CVE-2026-40012 PUBLISHED

Information about ECS zero scoped answers might leak to clients that use a specific ECS

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 08.04.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

ECS zero scoped answers are stored in the packet cache while they should not. This impacts only configurations that have ECS enabled;

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 5.3

Product Status

Vendor PowerDNS
Product Recursor
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5.2.0 to 5.2.11 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.3.0 to 5.3.8 (excl.)
  • affected from 5.4.0 to 5.4.3 (excl.)

Credits

  • Danial Mahadzir finder

References

Problem Types

  • Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere CWE