CVE-2023-22617

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jan 21, 2023
Updated: Apr 3, 2025
Reserved: Jan 4, 2023

Description

A remote attacker might be able to cause infinite recursion in PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 via a DNS query that retrieves DS records for a misconfigured domain, because QName minimization is used in QM fallback mode. This is fixed in 4.8.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/security-advisories/
[oss-security] 20230120 Security Advisory 2023-01 for PowerDNS Recursor 4.8.0 (CVE-2023-22617)mailing-list
https://docs.powerdns.com/recursor/changelog/4.8.html#change-4.8.1

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