CVE-2026-69184: c-ares c-ares

c-ares: CPU-exhaustion denial of service via unbounded DNS name compression pointer chains

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.0048 · 41st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GitHub_M) at 18 Sept 2026, 17:26 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
c-ares	c-ares	affected < 1.34.7

Identifiers

CVE-2026-69184

CNA

GitHub_M

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-407

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0048, the 41st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 18 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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