CVE-2025-40776: Birthday Attack against Resolvers supporting ECS
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A birthday attack against DNS resolvers supporting EDNS Client Subnet (ECS) extension allows cache poisoning or service disruption.
- Who is affected
- Authoritative and recursive DNS resolvers with ECS support enabled globally.
- Urgency
- High severity (CVSS 8.6) due to significant attack potential against critical DNS infrastructure.
- Action
- Disable ECS if not required, or update resolver to patched version implementing birthday attack mitigations.
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Details
Original advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2025-40776
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2025-407760.20% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 10% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-40776 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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