CVE-2026-93007

medium

Description

A flaw was found in dnsmasq. The TCP DNS service uses a small fixed pool of child processes and does not set a receive timeout on client connections. A remote attacker can open idle TCP connections to port 53 and occupy the entire pool, preventing new TCP DNS connections and DNSSEC validation that requires TCP fallback. UDP DNS resolution continues, and occupied slots are released after a fixed lifetime.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-112790

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2536076

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93007

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-29

Updated: 2026-10-30

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

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

Severity: Medium