Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting pdns-recursor package, versions [5.4.0,5.4.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (11th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PDNSRECURSOR-17660836
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026
  • creditVitaly Simonovich

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-42390  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-347  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pdns-recursor to version 5.4.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in the ZONEMD validation process. An attacker can cause an invalid zone to be accepted as valid by bypassing the intended validation checks. This is only exploitable if ZoneToCache is configured with ZONEMD validation.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1