CVE•Published 2026-04-26•Modified 2026-04-27•0 articles on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-42254
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
4.0
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS percentile
8
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 92% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Hickory DNS hickory-recursor 0.1 through 0.25.2 allows cross-zone poisoning because cached data is not directly associated with a query that triggered a response.
Timeline
Published 2026-04-26
Modified 2026-04-27
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-42254Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-42254Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-42254Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-42254GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-42254" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-42254 on GitHub.
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