CVE intelligence

CVE-2026-5172

Vulnerability intelligence

Published May 11, 2026Sources checked Sep 27, 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.

CISA KEVNot listedBased on the latest collected catalog

EPSS0.7%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.