CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15091

7.1 HIGH Published 2018-01-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-358, CWE-863

Description

An issue has been found in the API component of PowerDNS Authoritative 4.x up to and including 4.0.4 and 3.x up to and including 3.4.11, where some operations that have an impact on the state of the server are still allowed even though the API has been configured as read-only via the api-readonly keyword. This missing check allows an attacker with valid API credentials to flush the cache, trigger a zone transfer or send a NOTIFY.

Affected configurations

• powerdns authoritative (>= 3.0 <= 3.4.11) • powerdns authoritative (>= 4.0.0 <= 4.0.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-358 Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References