Is CVE-2026-12246 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2026-12246 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2026-12246?

CVE-2026-12246 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-12246?

CVE-2026-12246 has an EPSS score of 0.27% (18th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2026-12246

HIGH

8.1

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

NSD version 4.14.0 introduced a bug where a specially crafted APL RR, with an adflength larger than permitted for the address family will overwrite the stack when the zone is written to disk, with a maximum of 111 attacker controlled bytes.

CWE-20Improper Input Validation CWE-120

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.27%probability of exploitation in 30 days

18thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 18% of all known CVEs.

References

https://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/nsd/CVE-2026-12246.txt

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-06-26.