VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-22617

CVSS score7.5 HIGH

EPSS probability7.52%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2023-01-21

Last modified2026-06-17

CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-674
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-674

Primary references

cve@mitre.org — Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Mailing List, Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Vendor Advisory