Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting zeroconf package, versions [,0.149.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZEROCONF-17111092
  • published31 May 2026
  • disclosed29 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2026

CVE-2026-47183  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zeroconf to version 0.149.6 or higher.

Overview

zeroconf is a Pure Python Multicast DNS Service Discovery Library (Bonjour/Avahi compatible)

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the DNSIncoming._log_exception_debug function and the exception-deduplication, which stores unbounded exception data in memory. An attacker can cause excessive memory consumption by sending a large number of uniquely malformed packets over the local network, leading to process termination due to out-of-memory conditions.

Note: This is only exploitable if the attacker has access to the same local network segment as the vulnerable system.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by restricting mDNS (UDP/5353) traffic to trusted Layer-2 segments using AP client isolation, guest-network separation, or host firewall rules.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1