Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail
Priority LOW 29CWE-94Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.
Summary
Insufficient Validation of Member Zone Data May Cause Catalog Zone Transfer to Fail
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00353 29th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Authoritative (PowerDNS): 4.9.15, 5.0.5
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
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Authoritative (PowerDNS) Fixed in 4.9.15, 5.0.5
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
PowerDNS Authoritative 4.9.15, 5.0.5
4 records Highest priority Priority LOW 4 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-30390 Insufficient Validation of Autoprimary SOA QueriesPriority LOW 39
- TI-2026-30389 Insufficient Validation of Names During AXFRPriority LOW 37
- TI-2026-30391 Concurrency and locking defects in GSS-TSIGPriority LOW 32
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-42396
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hm6h-mcgv-h2x8
- 2026-10-25 EPSS moved to the below the 50th percentile
References
More PowerDNS Authoritative vulnerabilities
- 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-2016-04703 PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 does not properly handle a . CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2015-04466 PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server 3.4.4 before 3.4.7 allows remote attackers to… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 5.0
- TI-2016-04702 PowerDNS (aka pdns) Authoritative Server before 3.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a… CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-25990 Incomplete domain name sanitization during CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-15157 An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
Sources
- CVE-2026-42396 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-42396 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-hm6h-mcgv-h2x8 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-42396 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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