CVE-2026-116013
OpenResty lua-resty-dns before 0.24 Denial of Service via DNS Response Parsing
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
Description
OpenResty lua-resty-dns before 0.24 contains an improper input validation vulnerability in parse_section() and _decode_name() that fails to check resource record lengths against the received message. Attackers controlling or spoofing a queried nameserver can send truncated record headers or RDATA, raising uncaught Lua exceptions in resolver:query() that abort requests and break name resolution.
Timeline
ID reserved
By VulnCheck
Published
- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.29% · top 79% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected < 0.24
References (5)
- https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-dns/pull/83 (opens in a new tab)patchissue-tracking
- https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-dns/commit/b68eaecbf7997ac71c08ba56032b1f45438bd758 (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-dns/blob/v0.23/lib/resty/dns/resolver.lua#L396-L442 (opens in a new tab)technical-description
- https://github.com/openresty/lua-resty-dns/tree/v0.24 (opens in a new tab)release-notes
- VulnCheck Advisory: OpenResty lua-resty-dns before 0.24 Denial of Service via DNS Response Parsing (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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