VA-26-138-02

Vulnerability from csaf_cisa - Published: 2026-05-19 13:27 - Updated: 2026-05-19 13:27
Summary
Technitium DNS Amplification
Notes
Legal Notice: All information products included in [https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/tree/develop/csaf_files/IT/white](https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF/tree/develop/csaf_files/IT/white) are provided \"as is\" for informational purposes only. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not provide any warranties of any kind regarding any information contained within. DHS does not endorse any commercial product or service, referenced in this product or otherwise. Further dissemination of this product is governed by the Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) marking in the header. For more information about TLP, see [https://us-cert.cisa.gov/tlp/](https://us-cert.cisa.gov/tlp/).
Countries and Areas Deployed: Worldwide
Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Information Technology
Risk Evaluation: 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.
Recommended Practices: Fixed in version 15.0.
Company Headquarters Location: United States
CWE-405 - Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification)
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Technitium DNS Server <15.0
Technitium / DNS Server
<15.0
Vendor Fix fix
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Technitium DNS Server 15.0
Technitium / DNS Server
15.0
Vendor Fix fix
Acknowledgments
Tsinghua University Shuhan Zhang
Tsinghua University Dan Li
Tsinghua University Baojun Liu

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