CVE-2026-35406
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Aardvark-dns is an authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. From 1.16.0 to 1.17.0, a truncated TCP DNS query followed by a connection reset causes aardvark-dns to enter an unrecoverable infinite error loop at 100% CPU. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.17.1.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ if you've already worked around this in production โ publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
โ Propose a mitigation on Community โ Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| โ | Affected | โ |
Debian Mixed 4 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Affected | โ |
| sid | Fixed | 1.16.0-3 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.16.0-3 |
| bookworm | Affected | โ |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| crates.io | netavark | >=1.16.0,<1.17.1 | 1.17.1 |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-35406
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-35406.html
- https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/security/advisories/GHSA-hfpq-x728-986j
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35406
- https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/commit/3b49ea7b38bdea134b7f03256f2e13f44ce73bb1
- https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns
- https://github.com/containers/aardvark-dns/releases/tag/v1.17.1
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.