CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-24698

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-10-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2020-10-02
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses: CWE-415

Description

An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker might be able to cause a double-free, leading to a crash or possibly arbitrary code execution. by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.

Affected configurations

• powerdns authoritative (<= 4.3.0)

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-415 Double Free weakness

References

https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2020-06.html Vendor Advisory
https://doc.powerdns.com/authoritative/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2020-06.html Vendor Advisory

CVE-2020-24698

Description

Affected configurations

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

References