CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-33811

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.81%

54th percentile - higher than 54% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability in the cgo DNS resolver in Go (when using LookupCNAME) causes a double-free of C memory and a crash when handling a very long CNAME response.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can crash the application (DoS) by sending a DNS response with a very long CNAME record.

Recommendation

Update Go to a version containing a fix for this vulnerability, or avoid using the cgo DNS resolver with LookupCNAME.

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Original NVD description (English source)

When using LookupCNAME with the cgo DNS resolver, a very long CNAME response can trigger a double-free of C memory and a crash.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS