CWE-350 21 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-350: Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action

Overview

CWE-350 (Reliance on Reverse DNS Resolution for a Security-Critical Action) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product performs reverse DNS resolution on an IP address to obtain the hostname and make a security decision, but it does not properly ensure that the IP address is truly associated with the hostname.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-42559 2026-05-14 RMCP is an official Rust SDK for the Model Context Protocol. Prior to version 1.4.0, the rmcp crate's Streamable HTTP server transport (crates/rmcp/src/transport/streamable_http_server/) did not valid…
CVE-2026-6874 2026-04-23 A vulnerability was determined in ericc-ch copilot-api up to 0.7.0. This impacts an unknown function of the file /token of the component Header Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument Host c…
CVE-2026-33002 2026-03-18 Jenkins 2.442 through 2.554 (both inclusive), LTS 2.426.3 through LTS 2.541.2 (both inclusive) performs origin validation of requests made through the CLI WebSocket endpoint by computing the expected …
CVE-2026-24281 2026-03-07 Hostname verification in Apache ZooKeeper ZKTrustManager falls back to reverse DNS (PTR) when IP SAN validation fails, allowing attackers who control or spoof PTR records to impersonate ZooKeeper serv…
CVE-2026-28271 2026-02-27 Kiteworks is a private data network (PDN). Prior to version 9.2.0, a vulnerability in Kiteworks configuration functionality allows bypassing of SSRF protections through DNS rebinding attacks. Maliciou…
CVE-2026-1490 2026-02-15 The Spam protection, Anti-Spam, FireWall by CleanTalk plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized Arbitrary Plugin Installation due to an authorization bypass via reverse DNS (PTR record) spoof…
CVE-2025-61430 2025-10-24 Improper handling of DNS over TCP in Simple DNS Plus v9 allows a remote attacker with querying access to the DNS server to cause the server to return request payloads from other clients. This happens …
CVE-2025-59956 2025-09-30 AgentAPI is an HTTP API for Claude Code, Goose, Aider, Gemini, Amp, and Codex. Versions 0.3.3 and below are susceptible to a client-side DNS rebinding attack when hosted over plain HTTP on localhost. …
CVE-2025-59163 2025-09-29 vet is an open source software supply chain security tool. Versions 1.12.4 and below are vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack due to lack of HTTP Host and Origin header validation. Data from the vet s…
CVE-2025-8036 2025-07-22 Thunderbird cached CORS preflight responses across IP address changes. This allowed circumventing CORS with DNS rebinding. This vulnerability was fixed in Firefox 141, Firefox ESR 140.1, Thunderbird 1…
CVE-2025-24010 2025-01-20 Vite is a frontend tooling framework for javascript. Vite allowed any websites to send any requests to the development server and read the response due to default CORS settings and lack of validation …
CVE-2024-53275 2024-12-23 Home-Gallery.org is a self-hosted open-source web gallery to browse personal photos and videos. In 1.15.0 and earlier, the default setup of home-gallery is vulnerable to DNS rebinding. Home-gallery is…
CVE-2024-42364 2024-08-23 Homepage is a highly customizable homepage with Docker and service API integrations. The default setup of homepage 0.9.1 is vulnerable to DNS rebinding. Homepage is setup without certificate and authe…
CVE-2022-22364 2024-05-03 IBM Cognos Controller 10.4.1, 10.4.2, and 11.0.0 is vulnerable to external service interaction attack, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker could exploit this vulner…
CVE-2023-52235 2024-04-05 SpaceX Starlink Wi-Fi router GEN 2 before 2023.53.0 and Starlink Dish before 07dd2798-ff15-4722-a9ee-de28928aed34 allow CSRF (e.g., for a reboot) via a DNS Rebinding attack.
CVE-2023-32020 2023-06-14 Windows DNS Spoofing Vulnerability
CVE-2021-34561 2021-08-31 In PEPPERL+FUCHS WirelessHART-Gateway <= 3.0.8 serious issue exists, if the application is not externally accessible or uses IP-based access restrictions. Attackers can use DNS Rebinding to bypass any…
CVE-2021-22884 2021-03-03 Node.js before 10.24.0, 12.21.0, 14.16.0, and 15.10.0 is vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks as the whitelist includes “localhost6”. When “localhost6” is not present in /etc/hosts, it is just an ordin…
CVE-2020-11091 2020-06-03 In Weave Net before version 2.6.3, an attacker able to run a process as root in a container is able to respond to DNS requests from the host and thereby insert themselves as a fake service. In a clust…
CVE-2018-7160 2018-05-17 The Node.js inspector, in 6.x and later is vulnerable to a DNS rebinding attack which could be exploited to perform remote code execution. An attack is possible from malicious websites open in a web b…

Previous names

  • Improperly Trusted Reverse DNS (2013-07-17)

Content submission

Name
PLOVER
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Sean Eidemiller 1.0 added/updated demonstrative examples
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2009-05-27 CWE Content Team 1.4 updated Relationships
2010-09-27 CWE Content Team 1.10 updated Potential_Mitigations
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Related_Attack_Patterns, Relationships
2013-06-23 CWE Content Team 2.5 Critical CWE-247 and CWE-292 deprecated and merged into CWE-350 to address duplicates.
2013-07-17 CWE Content Team 2.5 updated Applicable_Platforms, Common_Consequences, Demonstrative_Examples, Description, Maintenance_Notes, Name, Potential_Mitigations, References, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings, Type
2014-02-18 CWE Content Team 2.6 updated Description, Relationships
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2017-05-03 CWE Content Team 2.11 updated Related_Attack_Patterns
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated References, Relationships
2021-03-15 CWE Content Team 4.4 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2022-10-13 CWE Content Team 4.9 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Mapping_Notes
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
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