CVE-2017-15120
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.0
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 51%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 99
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (2)
CWE
- CWE-476
- CWE-476
Referencias
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063
- http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q4/382
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106335
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-15120
- https://doc.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2017-08.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4063
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