MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-123572 (CVSS 8.7)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 8, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.3%

Hickory-dns from 0.20.1 before 0.26.2 contains a denial of service vulnerability in the hickory-proto SVCB and HTTPS record presentation format parser, which panics on malformed alpn values. Attackers can supply untrusted zone files with unbalanced quotes, consecutive commas, or invalid escapes in alpn parameters to crash parsing processes.

Technical details

CVSS

8.7

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

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