CVE-2026-64193: Nlnetlabs Net::dns

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Net::DNS versions through 1.55 for Perl allow remote execution injection via EDNS EXTENDED ERROR. Net::DNS::RR::OPT::EXTENDED_ERROR::_decompose parses the EXTRA-TEXT field of an EDNS EXTENDED-ERROR option (RFC 8914) by tokenising the raw bytes and passing the result to Perl's eval. There is some escaping done for $ and @, but not for backticks. This can be exploited for command execution if $pkt->edns->option('EXTENDED-ERROR') is called in array context, for example with a payload of {0:`"<command>"`} in EXTRA-TEXT.

Affected products

• Nlnetlabs Net::dns: up to and including 1.55

Published 2026-07-20. Last modified 2026-07-21.