CVE-2026-40208 (GCVE-0-2026-40208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 12:22 – Updated: 2026-06-25 13:24
VLAI?
Title
Denial of service via DoH3 queries
Summary
An attacker might be able to delay the processing of DoH3 queries by sending DoH3 GET queries with an invalid DATA frame.
CWE
  • Incorrect Control Flow Scoping
Assigner
OX
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
PowerDNS DNSdist Affected: 1.9.0 , < 1.9.15 (semver)
Affected: 2.0.0 , < 2.0.7 (semver)
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Credits
ylwango613
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