Published May 11, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
7.3HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-2291 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 7.3. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
What to do next
Remediation and response
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Vendor revision: Jun 3, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
2.92-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS0.6%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-2291?
dnsmasqs extract_name() function can be abused to cause a heap buffer overflow, allowing an attacker to inject false DNS cache entries, which could result in DNS lookups to redirect to an attacker-controlled IP address, or to cause a DoS.