Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data Affecting pdns-recursor package, versions [5.2.0,5.2.11)[5.3.0,5.3.8)[5.4.0,5.4.3)
Threat Intelligence
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- published28 Jun 2026
- disclosed25 Jun 2026
- creditMehtab Zafar
Introduced: 25 Jun 2026
CVE-2026-52690 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade pdns-recursor to version 5.2.11, 5.3.8, 5.4.3 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data via spoofed DNS responses to the Recursor process. An attacker can cause the system to incorrectly mark an authoritative server as not supporting EDNS, resulting in the failure of DNSSEC record validation by sending crafted responses.