CVE-2026-42304

A flaw was found in Twisted, specifically within the twisted.names module. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted TCP DNS packet containing deeply chained compression pointers. This can lead to resource exhaustion, causing the...

CVE-2026-42304: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 26.4.0rc2, the twisted.names module is vulnerable to a Denial of Service DoS attack via resource exhaustion during DNS name decompression. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending...