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GHSA-hfpq-x728-986j

HighCVSS 7.5 / 10

Published Apr 7, 2026·Last modified Apr 24, 2026

Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

Impact

A truncated TCP DNS query followed by a connection reset causes aardvark-dns to enter an unrecoverable infinite error loop at 100% CPU.

Patches

https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/commit/3b49ea7b38bdea134b7f03256f2e13f44ce73bb1

Workarounds

None

Credits

Thanks to @dkane01 for reporting this

Risk Scores

Base Score

7.5

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence

6.9

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS

N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit

Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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