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CVE-2026-52684

Prefetch Feature Allows Persistent Ghost Domain Cache Poisoning Attack

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.5.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

If the auth responds very slowly and the records expire in between, the capping of TTLs is not enforced for lack of data. This does not happen on regular resolve as then then the child records are used immediately if not expired and thus valid, or the records are expired, and in that case not used. So this case can only happen if almost expired records are used to refresh the authoritative NS records.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

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

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • pdns-recursor

    From 0.0.0 · fixed in 5.5.0

References 1

GitHub · PowerDNS/pdns