MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-123573 (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. Attackers can supply untrusted zone files where only a single or double quote replaces a service parameter value, triggering a panic that crashes the parsing process.

Technical details

CVSS

8.7

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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