CVE-2026-42304: Twisted has a Denial of Service (DoS) in twisted.names via Crafted DNS Compression Pointer Chains

May 5, 2026

A single malformed TCP packet is sufficient to block the Twisted reactor’s event loop for several seconds. Because Twisted operates on a single-threaded cooperative multitasking model, this is a common Denial of Service (DoS). The process becomes unable to handle new connections, process I/O, or respond to existing requests, effectively paralyzing the server for the duration of the decompression.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-grgv-6hw6-v9g4
github.com/twisted/twisted
github.com/twisted/twisted/commit/e11cd82bdd79b3ebbb0e8635cbb9c76df2b5af09
github.com/twisted/twisted/security/advisories/GHSA-grgv-6hw6-v9g4
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42304

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