High severity · published Jun 25, 2026
CVE-2026-12244
Heap overflow and crash with crafted SVCB RR
8.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
If NSD is configured as secondary for a zone, the primary of that zone can crash NSD with an AXFR containing a DNS message with a special crafted SVCB RR with an rdata size of 65512, that let's an (uint16_t) variable that is used to allocate space needed for the RR wrap (because total size > 65535), causing a heap overflow. The attacker can perform a controlled (RCE class) head write of up to 65509 bytes
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
NS
NSD · NLnet Labs
4.14.0 before 4.14.3 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12244
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-12244
Patch
https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/nsd/CVE-2026-12244.txt
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