CVE-2023-26437 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through 4.8.3.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Powerdns	Recursor

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:powerdns:recursor::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2023-02.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CN7VMRYKZHG2UDUAK326LXD3JY7NO3LR/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IHPD6SIQOG7245GXFQHPUEI4AZ6Y3KD6/

History

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-400
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 13 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description	Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through 4.8.3.	Denial of service vulnerability in PowerDNS Recursor allows authoritative servers to be marked unavailable.This issue affects Recursor: through 4.6.5, through 4.7.4 , through 4.8.3.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: OX

Published: 2023-04-04T14:37:29.388Z

Updated: 2025-02-13T16:44:54.374Z

Reserved: 2023-02-22T20:42:56.090Z

Link: CVE-2023-26437

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T11:46:24.652Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-04-04T15:15:08.880

Modified: 2025-02-13T17:16:12.010

Link: CVE-2023-26437

Redhat

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