Description
Hickory DNS hickory-recursor 0.1 through 0.25.2 allows cross-zone poisoning because cached data is not directly associated with a query that triggered a response.
References1
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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4.0
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 6 · as of 13 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-706
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