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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Remotely reachable DNS service, no auth or user interaction, low complexity; impact is availability-only resource exhaustion with no confidentiality or integrity effect.
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An issue in Technitium DNS Server v.14.3 and before allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the DnsServerApp.exe, DnsServerApp.dll, TechnitiumLibrary.Net/Dns/DnsClient.cs components
AnalysisAI
Remote denial-of-service in Technitium DNS Server versions 14.3 and earlier lets an unauthenticated network attacker exhaust server resources (CWE-400) through the DNS client handling logic in TechnitiumLibrary.Net/Dns/DnsClient.cs, crashing or hanging the DNS service. The CVSS 7.5 vector (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) indicates trivially reachable remote triggering with high availability impact but no confidentiality or integrity loss. No public exploit identified at time of analysis, and EPSS is low (0.20%, 10th percentile), consistent with SSVC recording exploitation status as 'none'.
Technical ContextAI
Technitium DNS Server is a free, cross-platform, self-hosted authoritative and recursive DNS server written in .NET, distributed as DnsServerApp.exe/DnsServerApp.dll and built on the TechnitiumLibrary.Net networking library. The named component, TechnitiumLibrary.Net/Dns/DnsClient.cs, is the resolver/forwarder path the server uses to issue and parse upstream DNS queries, so the flaw sits in DNS message handling rather than the management UI. The root cause is classified as CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption), meaning specially crafted or high-volume DNS interactions can drive CPU, memory, or thread/socket consumption beyond safe limits, degrading or halting service without any memory-corruption or code-execution primitive.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to the fixed Technitium DNS Server release documented in the vendor changelog (https://github.com/TechnitiumSoftware/DnsServer/blob/aa9044d4df9d739b6a6e428bb77cecb3356b775b/CHANGELOG.md) - a changelog entry is referenced for this issue but the exact patched version is not independently confirmed from the provided data, so validate the target release against technitium.com before deploying. Until patched, reduce exposure by not publishing the DNS service directly to the internet: restrict UDP/TCP 53 and the recursion/forwarder path to trusted client subnets via firewall rules, disable open recursion for external clients, and enable per-client rate limiting (QPS limits) available in Technitium to blunt resource-exhaustion attempts; trade-offs are that overly tight recursion/ACL restrictions can break resolution for legitimate remote clients and aggressive rate limits may drop bursts of valid queries. Monitor CPU/memory and add process auto-restart (systemd/service watchdog) as a stopgap to recover availability after a crash.
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Same weakness CWE-400 – Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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EUVD-2026-39933
GHSA-fq83-8h88-7gf5