CVE-2026-40211
Denial of service via crafted DoH3 queries
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- Jun 25, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 25, 2026
- Reserved
- Apr 10, 2026
Description
An attacker can send crafted DNS over HTTP/3 queries, triggering an exception that prevents some buffer from being freed right away. The buffer will be freed at the end of the QUIC connection, but on some setups it might be possible to open enough concurrent DoH3 streams to trigger an out-of-memory condition, resulting in a denial of service.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | OX |
Weaknesses
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
DNSdistPowerDNS |
|
References
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