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medium 6.5

CVE-2026-24029 json

DNS over HTTPS ACL bypass

published 7mo ago modified 3mo ago also EUVD-2026-17403

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When the early_acl_drop (earlyACLDrop in Lua) option is disabled (default is enabled) on a DNS over HTTPs frontend using the nghttp2 provider, the ACL check is skipped, allowing all clients to send DoH queries regardless of the configured ACL.

Patch / fix

  • PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9.12, 2.0.3
  • dnsdist Debian 13 1.9.14-0+deb13u1
  • dnsdist Debian 14 2.0.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-24029

  • dnsdist SLES for SAP applications 16.0, SLES 16.0 1.9.13-160000.1.1
  • dnsdist SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 1.9.12-150700.3.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:22319-1SUSE-SU-2026:1618-1

  • dnsdist openSUSE Leap 16.0 1.9.13-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21015-1

  • dnsdist Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23 2.0.4-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-24029

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-24029 updated cvss 6.5

dnsdist: dnsdist: Access Control List bypass allows unauthorized DNS over HTTPS queries

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • PowerDNS DNSdist

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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