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CVE-2020-10995
published 2020-05-19

CVE-2020-10995: PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0 does not sufficiently defend against amplification attacks. An issue in the DNS protocol has been found…

PriorityP340high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
4.37%
90.2th percentile
PowerDNS Recursor from 4.1.0 up to and including 4.3.0 does not sufficiently defend against amplification attacks. An issue in the DNS protocol has been found that allow malicious parties to use recursive DNS services to attack third party authoritative name servers. The attack uses a crafted reply by an authoritative name server to amplify the resulting traffic between the recursive and other authoritative name servers. Both types of service can suffer degraded performance as an effect. This is triggered by random subdomains in the NSDNAME in NS records. PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.16, 4.2.2 and 4.3.1 contain a mitigation to limit the impact of this DNS protocol issue.

Affected

7 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debiandebian_linux
debianpdns-recursor< pdns-recursor 4.3.1-1 (bookworm)pdns-recursor 4.3.1-1 (bookworm)
fedoraprojectfedora
fedoraprojectfedora
opensusebackports_sle
opensuseleap
powerdnsrecursor4.1.0 – 4.3.0

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
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