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Out-of-bailiwick filtering is not applied to negative responses

Moderate
divergentdave published GHSA-vcjp-57rr-mpfw Sep 3, 2026

Package

cargo hickory-recursor (Rust)

Affected versions

v0.25.0 .. v0.25.2

Patched versions

None
cargo hickory-resolver (Rust)
v0.26.0 .. v0.26.1
0.26.2

Description

Reporter: Qifan Zhang, Palo Alto Networks

Hickory DNS's recursive resolver does not perform out-of-bailiwick filtering on negative responses. Bailiwick filtering is a useful mitigation for various cache poisoning attacks. This lack of bailiwick filtering could make exploiting some other DNSSEC verification vulnerabilities easier as well.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

No CWEs

Credits