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…

PriorityP347high8.1CVSS 3.1

AVNACHPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.36%

68.6th percentile

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 sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	pdns	< pdns 4.4.0-1 (bookworm)	pdns 4.4.0-1 (bookworm)
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 4.4.0-1	4.4.0-1
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 4.4.0-1	4.4.0-1
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 4.4.0-1	4.4.0-1
open-xchange	pdns	>= 0 < 4.4.0-1	4.4.0-1
powerdns	authoritative	<= 4.3.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.18.1HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.05.1MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv8.1HIGH

vendor_debian8.1LOW

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