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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-33258 json

Crafted zones can cause increased resource usage

published 2026-04-22 6 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also EUVD-2026-24721

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 48%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • PowerDNS Recursor 5.2.9, 5.3.6, 5.4.1
  • pdns-recursor Debian 13 5.2.9-0+deb13u1
  • pdns-recursor Debian 14 5.4.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-33258

  • pdns-recursor Alpine 3.23 5.3.6-r0
  • pdns-recursor Alpine 3.24 5.4.1-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-33258

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-33258 updated cvss 7.5

pdns-recursor: crafted zones can cause increased resource usage

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • PowerDNS Recursor

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.