The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote attackers can serve such referrals to force A and AAAA lookups per target, amplifying traffic against remote servers or exhausting recursor resources.
The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote attackers can serve such referrals to force A and AAAA lookups per target, amplifying traffic against remote servers or exhausting recursor resources.
The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote attackers can serve such referrals to force A and AAAA lookups per target, amplifying traffic against remote servers or exhausting recursor resources.
When a referral listed name servers outside the delegated zone and gave no glue addresses, the recursor looked up A and AAAA records for every listed name server, recursing into each one. Only the chain-depth limits applied. There was no cap on how many name servers it chased per referral or on the total upstream work per client query.
Someone who controls a zone can return referrals that list many glueless name servers in a victim's domain, and nest them, so that each client query makes the recursor send a large number of queries to the victim's servers (the NXNSAttack pattern). The same can exhaust the recursor's own resources.
This affects the recursive resolver, which is in hickory-resolver behind the opt-in `recursor` feature from 0.26.0-beta.1. Earlier releases shipped it as the separate hickory-recursor crate.
From 0.26.2 the recursor follows at most 5 glueless name servers per delegation and sends at most 200 upstream queries per client request.
For referrals whose name servers are outside the delegated zone and come without glue, the recursor resolved every listed name server, with no cap on referral width and no per-query work budget. Someone who controls a zone can use this to make each client query send a large number of queries to a victim's servers (the NXNSAttack pattern), or to exhaust the recursor.
The recursor code moved into hickory-resolver (opt-in `recursor` feature) in 0.26.0-beta.1, and the fix is in hickory-resolver 0.26.2. No hickory-recursor release contains a fix, so users should move to hickory-resolver 0.26.2 or later with the `recursor` feature.
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The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote atta…
The hickory-dns recursor in hickory-recursor 0.25.0-alpha.3 through 0.25.2 and hickory-resolver 0.26.0-alpha.1 before 0.26.2 iterates every out-of-bailiwick NS target lacking glue in a referral without any per-query work budget. Remote atta…