CVE-2026-51727.3HighCWE-787

CVE-2026-5172: CVE-2026-5172

dnsmasq

Vendor fix available · Affected: dnsmasq · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)

Not in CyberSIXT coverage yet: no article names this CVE. This page shows the public record.

2.7%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

86th percentile

050100

Higher than 86% of scored CVEs

7.3HighCVSS 3.1

LowMediumHighCrit.

DescriptionCVE.org

A buffer overflow in dnsmasq’s extract_addresses() function allows an attacker to trigger a heap out-of-bounds read and crash by exploiting a malformed DNS response, enabling extract_name() to advance the pointer past the record’s end.

Affected products1

From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.

dnsmasq · dnsmasqbefore 2.92rel2

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Exploitation: Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Out-of-bounds Write · Memory Corruption
Vendor: dnsmasq
Published: May 2026
Band: Possible (1 to 10%), May 2026

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