What is CVE-2020-24696?

CVE-2020-24696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2020-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-24696?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative

CVE-2020-24696

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a crash, or possibly arbitrary code execution, by sendi…

Vulnerability class: Race Condition

EPSS: 0.014 (68.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Powerdns Authoritative
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-362 — Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition)

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-24696?: CVE-2020-24696 is a high-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 8.1/10. Published 2020-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-24696?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.1 out of 10.