Inadequate Encryption Strength Affecting dnsmasq-utils package, versions <0:2.76-16.el7_9.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-DNSMASQUTILS-7974305
  • published14 Sept 2024
  • disclosed19 Jan 2021

Introduced: 19 Jan 2021

CVE-2020-25685  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-326  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 dnsmasq-utils to version 0:2.76-16.el7_9.1 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:0153.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnsmasq-utils package and not the dnsmasq-utils package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

A flaw was found in dnsmasq before version 2.83. When getting a reply from a forwarded query, dnsmasq checks in forward.c:reply_query(), which is the forwarded query that matches the reply, by only using a weak hash of the query name. Due to the weak hash (CRC32 when dnsmasq is compiled without DNSSEC, SHA-1 when it is) this flaw allows an off-path attacker to find several different domains all having the same hash, substantially reducing the number of attempts they would have to perform to forge a reply and get it accepted by dnsmasq. This is in contrast with RFC5452, which specifies that the query name is one of the attributes of a query that must be used to match a reply. This flaw could be abused to perform a DNS Cache Poisoning attack. If chained with CVE-2020-25684 the attack complexity of a successful attack is reduced. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1