CVE-2026-52684 PUBLISHED

Prefetch Feature Allows Persistent Ghost Domain Cache Poisoning Attack

Assigner: OX
Reserved: 08.06.2026 Published: 23.07.2026 Updated: 23.07.2026

If the auth responds very slowly and the records expire in between, the capping of TTLs is not enforced for lack of data. This does not happen on regular resolve as then then the child records are used immediately if not expired and thus valid, or the records are expired, and in that case not used. So this case can only happen if almost expired records are used to refresh the authoritative NS records.

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 Recursor
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.0.0 to 5.5.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Taofei Guo, Peking University. Qi Wang and JianJun Chen and Haixin Duan, Tsinghua University. finder

References

Problem Types

  • Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition CWE