CVE-2020-24696
8.1
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.07%
Description
An issue was discovered in PowerDNS Authoritative through 4.3.0 when --enable-experimental-gss-tsig is used. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can trigger a race condition leading to a crash, or possibly arbitrary code execution, by sending crafted queries with a GSS-TSIG signature.
How to fix CVE-2020-24696
To remediate CVE-2020-24696, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/pdns—upgrade to 4.4.0-1 or later
Is CVE-2020-24696 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 4.4.0-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |