CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-40188

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-09-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-09-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-407

Description

Knot Resolver before 5.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) because of algorithmic complexity. During an attack, an authoritative server must return large NS sets or address sets.

Affected configurations

• nic knot resolver (< 5.5.3) • fedoraproject fedora 35 • fedoraproject fedora 36 • fedoraproject fedora 37 • debian debian linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity weakness

References