CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-33258

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.58%

48th percentile - higher than 48% of all known CVEs

Summary

In a DNS system, an attacker can publish and query a crafted zone to cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressive NSEC(3) caches.

Risk Assessment

This may lead to memory exhaustion and denial of service (DoS) on the DNS server.

Recommendation

Update DNS software to a patched version and monitor cache memory usage.

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Original NVD description (English source)

By publishing and querying a crafted zone an attacker can cause allocation of large entries in the negative and aggressive NSEC(3) caches.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS