Authoritative vulnerabilities
4 known vulnerabilities in Authoritative from PowerDNS. 4 are rated high or critical. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 7.5 High severity
Authoritative: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A rogue primary server may cause file descriptor exhaustion and eventually a denial of service, when a PowerDNS secondary server forwards a DNS update request to it.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Authoritative: Improper Control of Generation of Code
An attacker can send a notify request that causes a new secondary domain to be added to the bind backend, but causes said backend to update its configuration to an invalid one, leading to the backend no longer able to run on the next restart, requiring manual
- 7.5 High severity
Authoritative: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default.
- 7.5 High severity
Authoritative: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
An attacker can send a web request that causes unlimited memory allocation in the internal web server, leading to a denial of service. The internal web server is disabled by default.