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CWE-116

{"timestamp":"2026-06-25T13:23:09.989984Z","id":"CVE-2026-40011","options":[{"exploitation":"none"},{"automatable":"no"},{"technicalImpact":"partial"}],"role":"CISA Coordinator","version":"2.0.3"}

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.

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

https://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2026-09.html

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