VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-24696

CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability1.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-10-02
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-362

Primary references