CVE-2026-42004 PUBLISHED

EDNS options smuggling

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 23.04.2026 Published: 25.06.2026 Updated: 25.06.2026

An attacker can send a crafted EDNS OPT record that will be ignored by DNSdist’s filtering rules, but will be rewritten as a valid OPT record when EDNS Client Subnet is inserted, causing the backend to see the EDNS option(s) that DNSdist did not filter.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.7

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

  • Vitaly Simonovich finder

References

Problem Types

  • Misinterpretation of Input CWE