Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting zeroconf package, versions [,0.149.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.23% (14th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ZEROCONF-17318192
  • published12 Jun 2026
  • disclosed11 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-48045  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade zeroconf to version 0.149.12 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 AsyncListener.handle_query_or_defer() function. An attacker can exhaust system memory and degrade service availability by sending a flood of spoofed, truncated mDNS queries from unauthenticated hosts on the local network, causing unbounded queue growth and excessive CPU usage.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1