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Version: v1.4.x

CVE-2026-69184

CVE Details​

Visit the official vulnerability details page for CVE-2026-69184 to learn more.

Initial Publication​

09/18/2026

Last Update​

09/24/2026

Third Party Dependency​

c-ares

NIST CVE Summary​

c-ares is an asynchronous resolver library. Prior to 1.34.7, ares_dns_name_parse() enforces backward DNS compression pointers but does not bound the total pointer hops or assembled name length. A malicious DNS server can send a response containing a long descending pointer chain and many resource records whose NAME or RDATA fields refer to the chain, causing repeated decompression work that grows quadratically with message size. A single crafted response can stall the single-threaded c-ares event loop and deny DNS resolution, without causing memory corruption or information disclosure. This issue is fixed in version 1.34.7.

CVE Severity​

7.5

Our Official Summary​

Investigation is ongoing to determine how this vulnerability affects our products.

Status​

Awaiting Analysis

Affected Products & Versions​

VersionPaletteAIPaletteAI VerteX
1.4.0⚠️ Impacted⚠️ Impacted
1.3.2⚠️ Impacted⚠️ Impacted
1.2.2⚠️ Impacted⚠️ Impacted

Revision History​

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