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CVE-2023-22617
published 2023-01-21

CVE-2023-22617: A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain…

PriorityP343high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
7.32%
93.6th percentile
A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianpdns-recursor< pdns-recursor 4.8.1-1 (bookworm)pdns-recursor 4.8.1-1 (bookworm)
powerdnsrecursor

CVSS provenance

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