Medium severity · published Nov 26, 2018
CVE-2018-14663
An issue has been found in PowerDNS DNSDist before 1.3.3 allowing a remote attacker to craft a DNS query with trailing data such that the addition of a record by dnsdist, for…
5.9
CVSS
2.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue has been found in PowerDNS DNSDist before 1.3.3 allowing a remote attacker to craft a DNS query with trailing data such that the addition of a record by dnsdist, for example an OPT record when adding EDNS Client Subnet, might result in the trailing data being smuggled to the backend as a valid record while not seen by dnsdist. This is an issue when dnsdist is deployed as a DNS Firewall and used to filter some records that should not be received by the backend. This issue occurs only when either the 'useClientSubnet' or the experimental 'addXPF' parameters are used when declaring a new backend.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.6% · higher than 85% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DN
Dnsdist · Powerdns
through 1.3.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14663
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14663
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14663
Vendor Advisory
https://dnsdist.org/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-for-dnsdist-2018-08.html
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