What is CVE-2020-24698?

CVE-2020-24698 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative, classified under Double Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-10-02.

How severe is CVE-2020-24698?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Double Free in Powerdns Authoritative

CVE-2020-24698

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might be able to cause a double-free, leading to a crash or possibly arbitrary code execution…

Vulnerability class: Double Free

EPSS: 0.032 (86.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/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-415 — Double Free

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2020-24698?: CVE-2020-24698 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Authoritative, classified under Double Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2020-10-02.
How severe is CVE-2020-24698?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.