Medium severity · published Mar 31, 2026
CVE-2026-0397
Information disclosure via CORS misconfiguration
4.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
When the internal webserver is enabled (default is disabled), an attacker might be able to trick an administrator logged to the dashboard into visiting a malicious website and extract information about the running configuration from the dashboard. The root cause of the issue is a misconfiguration of the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DN
DNSdist · PowerDNS
1.9.0 before 1.9.12; 2.0.0 before 2.0.3 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-0397
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-0397
Vendor Advisory
https://www.dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2026-02.html
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