CVE-2024-25638

DNSJava DNSSEC Bypass

State: Published
Severity: 8.9 High
Published: Jul 22, 2024
Updated: Jul 24, 2025
Reserved: Feb 8, 2024

Description

dnsjava is an implementation of DNS in Java. Records in DNS replies are not checked for their relevance to the query, allowing an attacker to respond with RRs from different zones. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.0.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.9 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
CWE-349 Acceptance of Extraneous Untrusted Data With Trusted Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
dnsjavadnsjava	< 3.6.0Affected

References

https://github.com/dnsjava/dnsjava/security/advisories/GHSA-cfxw-4h78-h7fw
https://github.com/dnsjava/dnsjava/commit/2073a0cdea2c560465f7ac0cc56f202e6fc39705
https://github.com/dnsjava/dnsjava/commit/bc51df1c455e6c9fb7cbd42fcb6d62d16047818d

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