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TI-2026-28854 Aliases CVE-2026-40011GHSA-f83r-q8f4-f336

Prometheus denial of service via crafted DNS queries

Priority LOW 17CWE-116Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · Low · None
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

An attacker sending a large number of crafted DNS queries might be able to trigger a dynamic block being inserted with a value causing invalid output to be produced in the prometheus endpoint. The prometheus endpoint will then be rejected by the scraper until the dynamic block expires.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00225 13th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed DNSdist (PowerDNS): 1.9.15, 2.0.7

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
PowerDNSDNSdist1.9.0 to before 1.9.15; 2.0.0 to before 2.0.71.9.15, 2.0.7Patch availableCNA
  • DNSdist VendorPowerDNS Affected 1.9.0 to before 1.9.15; 2.0.0 to before 2.0.7 Fixed in 1.9.15, 2.0.7 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:dnsdist:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*——PowerDNS
  • cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:dnsdist:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·PowerDNS

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA DNSdist (PowerDNS) Fixed in 1.9.15, 2.0.7

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.15, 2.0.7

    6 records Highest priority Priority LOW 6 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2026-29022 Denial of service via crafted DoH3 queriesPriority LOW 31
    • TI-2026-29020 Denial of service via IXFR queriesPriority LOW 31
    • TI-2026-29021 Out-of-bounds read in SetMacAddrActionPriority LOW 23
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Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 1 product
  • Red Hat

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-40011
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-f83r-q8f4-f336

References

Other 1

  • TI-2023-27571 Certain DNSSEC aspects of the DNS protocol (in RFC 4033, 4034, 4035, 6840, and related… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2023-27773 The Closest Encloser Proof aspect of the DNS protocol (in RFC 5155 when RFC 9276 guidance… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-01678 The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and… CVSS 2.0HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2021-14878 PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.5.0 before 4.5.1 allows anybody to crash the process by… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2016-04703 PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2018-12065 Out-of-bounds read in [UNKNOWN] pdns-recursor CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
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Sources

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