Vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative
CVE-2015-1868
The label decompression functionality in PowerDNS Recursor 3.5.x, 3.6.x before 3.6.3, and 3.7.x before 3.7.2 and Authoritative (Auth) Server 3.2.x, 3.3.x before 3.3.2, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption or crash) via a request with a name that refers to itself.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.817 (99.6th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.817 · newest: 0.817 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Powerdns Authoritative — versions 3.2, 3.3, 3.3.1
- Powerdns Recursor — versions 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 20, 21, 22
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156648.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156725.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156743.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/74306 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156655.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156680.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3306 (vendor-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3307 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1032220 (Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-April/156667.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2015-1868?
- CVE-2015-1868 is a vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative, classified under CWE-399. Published 2015-05-18.
- Is CVE-2015-1868 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.