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CVE-2026-45557 (GCVE-0-2026-45557)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-19 13:47 – Updated: 2026-05-19 14:57

Title

Technitium DNS Server excessive DNSSEC requests

Summary

Technitium DNS Server aggressively tries to fetch missing RRSIG records or mismatched DNSKEY records. An attacker in control of a domain can cause a vulnerable system to generate excessive network traffic. Fixed in 15.0.

Severity

5.8 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · cisa-cg (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-05-18 22:28 UTC

CWE

CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
CWE-406 - Insufficient Control of Network Message Volume (Network Amplification)
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

cisa-cg CISA root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer/b…	patch
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/de…
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45557

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Technitium	DNS Server	Affected: 0 , < 15.0 (custom) Unaffected: 15.0	guessed

Date Public

2026-05-19 00:00

Credits

Shuhan Zhang, Tsinghua University Dan Li, Tsinghua University Baojun Liu, Tsinghua University

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FKIE_CVE-2026-45557

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-19 15:16 - Updated: 2026-07-24 12:10

Severity

5.8 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Summary

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	9119a7d8-5eab-497f-8521-727c672e3725	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45557

Impacted products

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GHSA-VPFG-GC96-VG45

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-19 15:31 – Updated: 2026-05-19 15:31

Details

Severity

5.8 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

6.9 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-45557"
  ],
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-05-19T15:16:31Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "Technitium DNS Server aggressively tries to fetch missing RRSIG records or mismatched DNSKEY records. An attacker in control of a domain can cause a vulnerable system to generate excessive network traffic. Fixed in 15.0.",
  "id": "GHSA-vpfg-gc96-vg45",
  "modified": "2026-05-19T15:31:36Z",
  "published": "2026-05-19T15:31:36Z",
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VA-26-138-02

Vulnerability from csaf_cisa - Published: 2026-05-19 13:27 - Updated: 2026-05-19 13:27

Summary

Technitium DNS Amplification

Scope

1 vulnerability in this advisory, including CVE-2026-45557.

CVE-2026-45557

5.8 (Medium)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Known affected: 1 product Fixed: 1 product

https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer/blob/master…

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