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CVE-2026-40011

Prometheus denial of service via crafted DNS queries

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.9.15, 2.0.7
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • dnsdist

    From 1.9.0 · fixed in 1.9.15; From 2.0.0 · fixed in 2.0.7

References 1

dnsdist.org