CVE-2026-123588
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DNS Cache Poisoning in Hickory DNS Resolver
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-123588, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-11-08
Last updated on: 2026-11-08
Assigner: VulnCheck
Description
Description
The recursive resolver in Hickory DNS (all versions of the hickory-recursor crate, and hickory-resolver 0.26.0 before 0.26.2) caches an empty connection pool when it follows a referral with no glue records and all queries for the name servers' IP addresses fail. An attacker able to spoof DNS responses can make these lookups fail, causing all subsequent queries for the affected zone to fail until the cache entry expires or is evicted.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| hickory | hickory-recursor | * |
| hickory | hickory-resolver | to 0.26.2 (exc) |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-754 | The product does not check or incorrectly checks for unusual or exceptional conditions that are not expected to occur frequently during day to day operation of the product. |
