Medium severity · published Aug 23, 2022
CVE-2022-37428
PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service…
6.5
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
PowerDNS Recursor up to and including 4.5.9, 4.6.2 and 4.7.1, when protobuf logging is enabled, has Improper Cleanup upon a Thrown Exception, leading to a denial of service (daemon crash) via a DNS query that leads to an answer with specific properties.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
36 · source: NVD
RE
Recursor · Powerdns
4.5.0 before 4.5.10; 4.6.0 before 4.6.3; 4.7.0 before 4.7.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37428
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37428
Vendor Advisory
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/lua-config/protobuf.html
Vendor Advisory
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/powerdns-advisory-2022-02.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FXSREJKTT6RNE3GXQENQ4R4HS37UNSPX/
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