What is CVE-2022-37428?

CVE-2022-37428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Recursor, classified under Incomplete Cleanup. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-08-23.

How severe is CVE-2022-37428?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Powerdns Recursor

CVE-2022-37428

PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specif…

EPSS: 0.012 (64.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Powerdns Recursor
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 36
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-459 — Incomplete Cleanup

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-37428?: CVE-2022-37428 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Recursor, classified under Incomplete Cleanup. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2022-08-23.
How severe is CVE-2022-37428?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.