CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-3871

8.8 HIGH Published 2019-03-21 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-03-21
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

A vulnerability was found in PowerDNS Authoritative Server before 4.0.7 and before 4.1.7. An insufficient validation of data coming from the user when building a HTTP request from a DNS query in the HTTP Connector of the Remote backend, allowing a remote user to cause a denial of service by making the server connect to an invalid endpoint, or possibly information disclosure by making the server connect to an internal endpoint and somehow extracting meaningful information about the response

Affected configurations

• powerdns authoritative server (< 4.0.7) • powerdns authoritative server (>= 4.1.0 < 4.1.7) • fedoraproject fedora 28 • fedoraproject fedora 29

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References