Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data 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
0.3% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PDNSRECURSOR-17660837
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed25 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-42389  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-349  (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 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data via insufficient validation of incoming answers from authoritative servers. An attacker can cause the system to accept and process queries with invalid header values by sending specially crafted responses.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1