MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-123606 (CVSS 8.7)

NVD · officialPublished Nov 8, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.4%

The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote attackers can serve such referrals to force A and AAAA lookups per target, amplifying traffic against remote servers or exhausting recursor resources.

Technical details

CVSS

8.7

AV:NetworkAC:LowPR:NoneUI:None

Evidence and sources

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