CVE-2017-15120 HIGH

CVE-2017-15120

Vendor Powerdns
Product pdns-recursor
Weakness CWE-476
Published July 27, 2018
Last update August 5, 2024

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

July 27, 2018 CVE published
August 5, 2024 Record updated