An attacker sending a large number of crafted DNS queries might be able to trigger a dynamic block being inserted with a value causing invalid output to be produced in the prometheus endpoint. The prometheus endpoint will then be rejected by the scraper until the dynamic block expires.
CVE-2026-40011
Score 3.7 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2026-06-25. a secondary CVSS source baseline 3.7; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 3.7
- EG Score
- 3.7(high)
- EPSS
- 5.4%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 25, 2026
Last Modified
June 25, 2026
References (1)
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-40011(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 14× in last 7d / 22× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 14:25 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-06 14:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-06 02:23 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-05 02:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-04 06:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-03 20:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-03 20:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-01 03:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 03:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-28 09:27 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 09:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-25 15:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-25 15:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
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