CVSS 3.1
7.3 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:LCVE-2026-2291
High (7.3). EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 49% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced