CVE-2026-40211 PUBLISHED

Denial of service via crafted DoH3 queries

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 10.04.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

An attacker can send crafted DNS over HTTP/3 queries, triggering an exception that prevents some buffer from being freed right away. The buffer will be freed at the end of the QUIC connection, but on some setups it might be possible to open enough concurrent DoH3 streams to trigger an out-of-memory condition, resulting in a denial of service.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor PowerDNS
Product DNSdist
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.9.0 to 1.9.15 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.0.0 to 2.0.7 (excl.)

Credits

  • Mehtab Zafar finder

References

Problem Types

  • Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE