Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting hickory-proto package, versions >=0.3.1 <0.26.1
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- published3 May 2026
- disclosed1 May 2026
- creditqifan-sailboat
Introduced: 1 May 2026
New CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-407 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade hickory-proto to version 0.26.1 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity via the BinEncoder process. An attacker can cause excessive CPU consumption by sending specially crafted messages with numerous records that trigger repeated linear scans for name compression candidates.