CVE-2026-123581 Hickory DNS through 0.26.0-alpha.1 DNSSEC Validation Bypass via Unrelated RRset

Hickory DNS hickory-proto through 0.26.0-alpha.1 and hickory-net 0.26.0-beta.1 before 0.26.2 contain a DNSSEC validation flaw that accepts a response as a positive answer when any valid RRset appears in the answer section, without checking that the RRset is responsive to the query. Attackers can...