VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2018-14644

CVSS score5.3 MEDIUM

EPSS probability4.84%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2018-11-09

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor from 4.0.0 up to and including 4.1.4. A remote attacker sending a DNS query for a meta-type like OPT can lead to a zone being wrongly cached as failing DNSSEC validation. It only arises if the parent zone is signed, and all the authoritative servers for that parent zone answer with FORMERR to a query for at least one of the meta-types. As a result, subsequent queries from clients requesting DNSSEC validation will be answered with a ServFail.

Weakness classification

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references

secalert@redhat.com — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com — Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory