Published May 11, 2026Sources checked Nov 11, 2026
7.3HIGHCVSS out of 10
What this means
Review the available evidence
CVE-2026-5172 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
Microsoft Security Response Center guidance
Vendor revision: Jun 3, 2026
CBL-Mariner Releases
Vendor-listed releases
2.92-1
CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog
EPSS2.7%Estimated 30-day exploitation probability
Ransomware useNot markedCISA KEV ransomware field
Threat actors0Source-linked actor relationships
Overview
What is CVE-2026-5172?
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.