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CVE

CVE-2026-45674

Netty Vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning via Missing Bailiwick Checks in CNAME Records
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CVE

CVE-2026-45674

Netty Vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning via Missing Bailiwick Checks in CNAME Records

Summary

Netty's DnsResolveContext fails to validate the origin (bailiwick) of CNAME records in DNS responses.

Details

In io.netty.resolver.dns.DnsResolveContext#buildAliasMap, the resolver processes the ANSWER section of a DNS response and blindly caches all CNAME records it finds.

According to https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5452#section-6 

Care must be taken to only accept
   data if it is known that the originator is authoritative for the
   QNAME or a parent of the QNAME.
   One very simple way to achieve this is to only accept data if it is
   part of the domain for which the query was intended.

Impact

DNS Cache Poisoning (Bailiwick Bypass). Any application using Netty's DNS resolver is impacted.

Package Versions Affected

Package Version
patch Availability
io.netty:netty-resolver-dns 4.2.13.Final
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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.7
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
C
H
U
0
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
C
H
U
8.7
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Related Resources

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References

https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-676x-f7gg-47vc, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45674, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26017, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26018, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:26586, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34608, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37390, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45674, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488400, https://github.com/netty/netty, https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.1.135.Final, https://github.com/netty/netty/releases/tag/netty-4.2.15.Final, https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-45674.json

Severity

8.7

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
8.7
EPSS Probability
0.00224%
EPSS Percentile
0.12961%
Introduced Version
4.2.0.Alpha1,4.1.30.Final,0
Fix Available
4.2.15.Final,4.1.135.Final,4.1.69.Final,2.0.0-r1,0.27.1-r3,2.18.0-r4,2.9.0-r14,4.0.11-r0,4.2.2-r3,4.0.11-r2,3.3.0-r3,8.8.27-r1,8.9.6-r1,8.7.30-r1,8.8.26-r0,0.5.4-r26,0.6.3-r8,8.19.17-r0,9.3.6-r0,9.4.3-r0,37.0.0-r12,8.19.16-r1,9.3.7-r1,9.4.2-r2,9.4.2-r3,12.8.1-r4,12.8.1-r2,2.7.0-r22,15.0.22-r11,15.1.7-r20,15.2.6-r19,16.1.4-r3,1.5.0-r1,1.0.0-r6,1.0.0-r3,2025.4.6-r1,2026.0.4-r1,2026.1.1-r1,2025.4.3-r10,26.6.3-r3,1.20.3-r6,1.21.4-r4,1.22.1-r4,1.21.3-r10,0.1.117-r3,0.1.117-r2,0.1.120-r0,2.19.5-r1,3.6.0-r7,3.7.0-r0,1.5.0-r16,1.5.0-r11,26.4.7-r17,26.5.7-r6,26.6.3-r2,3.1.0-r9,3.1.0-r8,2.6.0-r13,4.44.0-r2,4.0.3-r1,4.1.2-r4,4.1.2-r3,0.9.0-r1,1.0.0-r7,0.10.5-r16,4.3.1.2-r5,481-r7,40.0.0-r3,3.6.1-r10

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