Improper Certificate Validation Affecting pdns-recursor package, versions <4.1.9-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE310-PDNSRECURSOR-453977
  • published29 Jan 2019
  • disclosed29 Jan 2019

Introduced: 29 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-3807  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-345  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.10 pdns-recursor to version 4.1.9-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pdns-recursor package and not the pdns-recursor package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.10 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue has been found in PowerDNS Recursor versions 4.1.x before 4.1.9 where records in the answer section of responses received from authoritative servers with the AA flag not set were not properly validated, allowing an attacker to bypass DNSSEC validation.