Cross-site Request Forgery (CSRF) The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dnsdist  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-DNSDIST-344015
  • published22 Aug 2017
  • disclosed22 Aug 2017

Introduced: 22 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-7557  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-352  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dnsdist package and not the dnsdist package as distributed by Ubuntu.

dnsdist version 1.1.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in authentication mechanism for REST API potentially allowing CSRF attack.