Resource exhaustion in Powerdns Recursor

CVE-2023-26437

Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through 4.8.3.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.4 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (46.2th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 46th percentile — 46.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2023-26437: held from 0.006 to 0.006.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-26437?
CVE-2023-26437 is a low-severity vulnerability in Powerdns Recursor, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 3.4/10. Published 2023-04-04.
How severe is CVE-2023-26437?
Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.4 out of 10.