CVE-2026-0397: Powerdns Dnsdist

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When the internal webserver is enabled (default is disabled), an attacker might be able to trick an administrator logged to the dashboard into visiting a malicious website and extract information about the running configuration from the dashboard. The root cause of the issue is a misconfiguration of the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy.

Affected products

• Powerdns Dnsdist: from 1.9.0, before 1.9.12 (fixed in 1.9.12); from 2.0.0, before 2.0.3 (fixed in 2.0.3)

Published 2026-03-31. Last modified 2026-07-25.