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CVE-2017-15120
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
CVSSv3.1 Severity
Impact Analysis
Description
An issue has been found in the parsing of authoritative answers in PowerDNS Recursor before 4.0.8, leading to a NULL pointer dereference when parsing a specially crafted answer containing a CNAME of a different class than IN. An unauthenticated remote attacker could cause a denial of service..
CVSSv2.0 Score
- Severity
- Medium
- Base Score
- 5/10
- Exploit Score
- 10/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Authentication Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 2.9/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- Partial
- Integrity Impact
- None
CVSSv3.1 Score
- Severity
- High
- Base Score
- 7.5/10
- Exploit Score
- 3.9/10
- Access Vector
- Network
- Access Complexity
- Low
- Privileges Required
- None
- Impact Score
- 3.6/10
- Confidentiality Impact
- None
- Availability Impact
- High
- Integrity Impact
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- User Interaction
- None
Products Affected
CPE | Affected | Vulnerable | Excluding | Edit |
---|---|---|---|---|
cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | 4.0.8 | |
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |