NetSight
high7.5

CVE-2020-12244

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly va…

Impact

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor 4.1.0 through 4.3.0 where records in the answer section of a NXDOMAIN response lacking an SOA were not properly validated in SyncRes::processAnswer, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
PowerdnsRecursor
from 4.1.0 through 4.3.0
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 31, 32
DebianDebian Linux
Version 10.0
OpensuseBackports Sle
Version 15.0
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.1

Weakness classification

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